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and making a succession of long springs ; and when I 

 stood over his dead body I felt very thankful that he 

 had been the victim and not one of us. The bullet I 

 hit him with yesterday had managed to glance round 

 under the skin of the neck, and was found lying quite 

 superficially near the left shoulder. The last bullet 

 entered the left side of the chest obliquely through the 

 back of the shoulder, and split the heart into two pieces ; 

 and it is therefore a good instance of the value of express 

 rifles with expanding bullets in lion-shooting, and in this 

 we are all agreed. I was too much done up at the time 

 to take any measurement of him, and I am now very 

 sorry not to have done so ; for since the head and skin 

 have been brought home I have measured the latter when 

 laid out, and find it is ten feet nine inches from nose to 

 tip of tail, and it must therefore have been larger than my 

 last one, whilst equally deficient in mane. Ibrahim, who 

 says he thoroughly understands how to prepare skins, 

 only takes off all the fat carefully; and then having 

 washed them and given them a good rubbing in with the 

 wood ashes, he hangs them up so that they may have 

 the full benefit of the sun to dry them. No wonder we 

 felt the heat of to-day, for the maximum thermometer 

 registers 150 in the sun, and I feel this evening, for 

 the first time, decided ill effects from it. 



AprilS, 9, 10, n, 12. 'Mafeesh.' 



April 13. The morning following my lion adven- 



