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Borwao, and the lions, two in number, had been marked down in 

 an adjoining jungle, about 10 miles away from my camp. The 

 lihubber reached us at about 11 a.m., and a few minutes later 

 Mukhbul Mia and I and as many of our men as we could mount, 

 were on our way to Borwao. After a scorchingly hot ride, we 

 reached our destination, which was the well at Borwao, in about 

 an hour, to find the beaters and pagis quite ready for an imme- 

 diate start. Leaving our horses at the well, and delaying them only 

 long enough to make the final arrangements for the drive, we all 

 started together. After accompanying the beaters for about a 

 mile, Mukhbul Mia and I left them to take up our position for the 

 drive, leaving Hebat, the head pagi, to look after the beaters. I had 

 been accustomed to use a bamboo ladder with broad rungs for 

 sitting upon, when, tiger shooting in North Kanara, and had 

 brought one with me on this occasion, but owing to the trees being 

 small and stunted, it could not be used, and we had to be content 

 with sitting on the sloping trunk of a tree with our feet resting 

 on the ground. We had not very long to wait before the drive 

 commenced. The lions were lying under a tvadh or banyan tree, 

 about two hundred yards distant from our tree. The beaters know 

 beforehand exactly where the lion is lying and keeping fairly 

 close together do not utter a sound, as a rule, until they are pretty 

 close to its lair, when they shout for all they are worth. On the 

 present occasion, almost immediately after the first shout, the 

 lions made their appearance going through the jungle one behind 

 the other at full tilt. I let them each have the contents of one 

 barrel at about 80 yards distance, before they were out of 

 sight. Neither of them gave tongue or seemed to flinch at my 

 shots, and I made sure I had scored a miss ; but almost im- 

 mediately afterwards Gunoo, an old Mahratta retainer of mine, 

 who happened to be seated in the direct line of flight of the 

 lions and only just managed to escape being knocked over by 

 them, by hastily clambering up into a tree, shouted out that the 

 leading lion was wounded with a large patch of blood on its side. 

 1 was using an 8-bore smooth bore with a spherical ball. On hurry- 

 ing down to him we found plenty of blood on the tracks. After 

 waiting half an hour we commenced following up, and very soon 



