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Brock, who had been attracted to the place by the 
sound of the firing. He was much astonished to 
see my fine dead lion lying stretched out, and _ his 
first remark was, “‘ You ave a lucky beggar!” After- 
wards, when he heard the full story of the adventure, 
he rightly considered me even more lucky than he 
had first thought. 
Our next business was to go back to the lioness 
which | had first shot and left for dead. Like her 
mate, however, she was still very much alive when 
we reached her, so I stalked carefully up to a 
neighbouring tree, from whose shelter | gave her 
the finishing shot. We then left Mahina and the 
other men to skin the two beasts, and went on to 
the rushes where the second lioness had taken cover. 
Here all our efforts to turn her out failed, so we 
reluctantly abandoned the chase and were fated to 
see no more lions that day. 
Our only other adventure was with a stolid old 
rhino, who gave me rather a fright and induced Brock 
to indulge in some lively exercise. Separated by 
about a hundred yards or so, we were walking over 
the undulating grounda short distance from the river, 
when, on gaining the top of a gentle rise, I suddenly 
came upon the ungainly animal as it lay wallowing 
ina hollow. Itjumped to its feet instantly and came 
for where [ stood, andas I had no wish to shoot it, 
I made a dash for cover round the knoll. On reaching 
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