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in finding it. On the loth May, I again got khubher of a lion 

 which had been tracked into a bhoira or water-hole in the 

 Jawantri jungles, about 5 miles away. I arrived at the spot long- 

 before sunset, intending to watch over the mouth of it, as the lion 

 was certain to come out in the evening ; but as I had promised 

 my Talala friend to await his arrival before commencing my 

 watch, I hung about the place — the very soul of impatience (!) — 

 until it was reported to me that the lion had gone. My friend 

 never turned up at all. Never again, I made up my mind, 

 would I wait for anyone, under similar circumstances ! On 

 the following day, again, hhubber came that four lions had been 

 tracked into another bhoira near the first one. This bhoira had 

 two entrances, about fifty or sixty yards apart from each other. 

 I rode out and took up my position in a tree over one of them, 

 while my friend, who turned up on this occasion, guarded the other 

 entrance when he arrived. Yesterday's lion had emerged from its 

 bhoira in broad daylight, but it was nearly dark before I heard a 

 shot from my friend, with what result I did not learn until later. 

 I waited on patiently at my post until it was too dark to see 

 anything, much less the sight of my rifle. When matters had 

 reached this stage, I heard a yawn below me followed by the 

 rustling of dead leaves ; the lions were out and apparently lying 

 about at the mouth of the bhoira with no intention of moving 

 away at once ; but of course, it was impossible to see anything, 

 although they were so close to me. This went on for some time, 

 and as the lions gave no signs of moving and nothing was to 

 be gained by remaining any longer up in my perch, I precipi- 

 tated matters by firing off my' rifle in the direction in which I 

 heard the most rustling, with no results of course, beyond 

 driving the lions away. As soon as all was quiet again, I 

 descended from my tree ; my friend it seemed had fired at a single 

 lion. It was found dead on the following morning and turned out 

 to be a half-grown cub. 



Bad luck on the whole so far, but I had not long to wait for 

 better t Only two days in fact, when my men sent in word to 

 say that they had found the remains of a freshly killed buffalo, and 

 were following up the lion which had killed it, and would J let 





