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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 19. 



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. 



ioner. Bhoota. The Author. Imam Din.] 

 A COLLECTION OF TROPHIES. 



