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to his ideas he had now but a poor chance of being 
allowed to enter Heaven. We did all that was 
possible for him, and Spooner especially could not 
have looked after a brother more tenderly; but 
to our great sorrow he sank gradually, and died on 
July ro. 
The hunt which had such a disastrous sequel 
proved to be the last occasion on which I met a lion 
in the open, as we got out of the hunting country 
shortly afterwards and for the rest of my stay 
in East Africa I had too much work to do to be 
able to go any distance in search of big game. 
atts - = = | 7 . 
[ Spooner. Bhoota. The Author. Imam Din.] 
A COLLECTION OF TROPHIES. 
