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in the direction of the river found the remains of a 

 full-grown buffalo bull, which the five lions had killed 

 and eaten. The buffalo had evidently given a good 

 account of itself, judging by the trampled state of 

 the reeds and long grass. It had been one of a 

 small herd of about eight, and its companions had 

 evidently made off at the first onset, instead of assist- 

 ing their stricken companion by a combined attack 

 upon the lions, as they occasionally do. The neck 

 of the buffalo, which had not been entirely eaten, 

 showed a terrible bite about three inches behind the 

 ears and several under the neck, but the face and 

 nose showed but few claw marks, which seemed to 

 prove that death was caused by strangulation, and not 

 by dislocation of the neck. 



On my arrival at camp Prinsloo had just returned 

 from tracking the wounded lion. He had taken the 

 blood-spoor to the edge of a dense patch of swamp- 

 grass, and there abandoned it. We spent the rest 

 of the morning in tracking it for a couple of miles 

 beyond that spot, through scrub, grass, and swamp, 

 towards the western edge of the Cheringoma forest. 

 The work was slow and dangerous, but not without 

 excitement. The quantity of blood the lion had lost 

 was astounding. At first we found pools of blood 

 every ten or twenty yards, where he had lain down 

 at short intervals; but afterwards he had evidently, 

 partially recovered his strength, the profuse bleeding 

 having almost ceased. We eventually had to give up 

 the pursuit, having lost the spoor in some short grass 

 within two hundred yards of the forest, and being 

 unable to cut it again." 



Mr. A. B. Lloyd is probably the only cyclist who 



