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round this ; expect they will kill or follow camels 

 back to Thein to-night. Shall have one donkey 

 tied up outside karia. 



2nd February, Friday. — Lions killed ray don- 

 key at karia last night. I expected to find them 

 lying up close, as they eat a lot. Tracks, one 

 large male, one female. Followed from 6.15 till 

 11, when tracks took us to my old camping 

 ground at Adaleh. Here men at well said lions 

 had entered their karia and killed a cow at 3 

 a.m., and were driven off from it. Found tracks 

 utterly blotted out by cattle, &c. ; could make 

 nothing of it. Got back to camp 1 p.m., badly 

 hungry, as I took no breakfast. Shall sit up over 

 dead donkey, but it does not look as if the lions 

 meant to come back. 



3rd February, Saturday. — No lions at night. 

 My pet horseman from Dhorke was coming in to 

 give me khubber that lions had been round his 

 karia again last night, when, at about 5.30 a.m., 

 he met a lion on the road. He reached me just 

 before 6 a.m., had a big drink of milk and went 

 off at once ; found tracks where he had evidently 

 turned the lion. Ground bad for tracking. After 

 much trouble took his tracks into a dense bit about 



