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tongue the moment he entered, and very shortly 

 afterwards dismal howls and strange rumbling noises 

 were heard issuing from the bowels of the earth, and 

 I began to be alarmed for the dogs, when suddenly 



I heard a row, and saw my poor friend D (who 



in spite of my remonstrances would stand right in 

 front of the mouth of the cave) knocked over on the 

 broad of his back by a huge male hyena, whilst in the 

 twinkling of an eye the female, a couple of cubs, and 

 my two dogs passed over him as he lay almost help- 

 less on the ground, and made the best of their way 

 down the hill and across some cultivated fields ; 

 B - let drive a couple of shots as they passed 

 and doubled up the female, and I descended the hill 

 as well as I could, and after a burst of a few minutes, 

 Gooty brought me alongside of the male, who was 

 vainly struggling to get away from my two dogs, one 

 of whom had hold of him by the ear, and the other 

 on the opposite side by the throat. As I did not 

 wish to run the chance of having either of them 

 mauled or bitten, I drove my spear home between 

 the shoulders, and finished the gan^e, after which 

 I went to look after poor D , whom I found 

 much shaken with the fall, his chin and throat being 

 considerably damaged by the claws of the brutes as 

 they passed over him. 



We returned to the bungalow, convinced that the 

 villagers had mistaken the hyena for a cheeta; and 



