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it. Crawling on hands and knees through 

 tunnels in the bush, you could see a bit on both 

 sides and branches too low for a lion to come at 

 you except slowly, so it was not quite so bad as 

 it looked. Went through it twice, back and for- 

 ward, saw nothing but tracks with wet blood. 

 Found on coming out that the lion had left, must 

 have sneaked out when we were in the bush. 

 Followed for another mile and lost tracks (no 

 blood) in bad ground at 2 p.m. near the big 

 dense bit. Gave it up. Had no dinner sent me 

 last night, only two cups of milk this morning, 

 no water all day for self and men. T was 

 thoroughly done and very angry with the people 

 in camp for sending nothing ; gave up and came 

 back, reached camp 5 p.m. 



9th, Friday. — Went after lion again. Found 

 his fresh pugs in thick low bush, not much grass, 

 fair tracking. Followed till 11.15, putting him 

 up three or four times without seeing him ; 

 breakfast, followed again till 1 p.m. Rested an 

 hour and followed again till o p.m., lion keeping 

 carefully out of sight all the time. Very hard 

 going, as it was continual stooping under bush. 

 This patch of bush about three square miles, and 



