SPORT IN WAR 



and disappeared from our view. 

 Posting one man on a high point on 

 the bank to watch the river-bed, and 

 leaving the other in charge of our 

 horses, the corporal and I made our 

 way down to where we had last seen 

 the lion. We were armed with Lee- 

 Metford carbines, and we turned on 

 our magazines in order to have a 

 good running fire available should 

 our quarry demand it. 



Meantime our main body, coming 

 along the opposite bank of the river, 

 had seen our manoeuvre, and an 

 officer and one man had come down 

 into the river-bed from their side to 

 help us. 



Gradually and cautiously we sur- 

 rounded the spot where we guessed 

 the lion to be cautiously, at least, 



