[TIIK AI'THOR.] [MR. c. KAW'SON ] 



"MY 0\VX TENT \V.VS PITCHED IX AN OPEN CLEARING.'' 



-CHAPTER III 



THE ATTACK ON THE GOODS-WAGON 



ALL this time my own tent was pitched in an 

 open clearing, unprotected by a fence of any kind 

 round it. One night when the medical officer, Dr. 

 Rose, was staying with me, we were awakened 

 about midnight by hearing something tumbling 

 about among the tent ropes, but on going out with a 

 lantern we could discover nothing. Daylight, how- 

 ever, plainly revealed the " pug " marks of a lion, 

 so that on that occasion I fancy one or other of us 

 had a narrow escape. Warned by this . experience, 



