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va DISTRICT OFFICER’S NARROW ESCAPE 
suspecting native traveller. After a time I was able 
to make out their eyes glowing in the darkness, and 
I took as careful aim as was possible in the circum- 
stances and fired; but the only notice they paid to 
the shot was to carry off whatever they were 
devouring and to retire quietly over a slight rise, 
**] TOOK UP MY POSITION IN A CRIB MADE OF SLEEPERS.” 
which prevented me from seeing them. There they 
finished their meal at their ease. 
As soon as it was daylight, I got out of my crib 
and went towards the place where I had last heard 
them. On the way, whom should I meet but my 
missing guest, Mr. Whitehead, looking very pale 
and ill, and generally dishevelled. 
