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margin of a wide and deep ravine. Here they halted and ex- 

 plained : ' The Panther is jnside there ; in this small thicket 



place yourself; we will go and fix the lure.' I was very much 

 surprised they had chosen such a convenient position for me, and 



rig. 141, — Bumbounel. 



one which I could not have found without great difficulty. The 

 ground was an inclined plane, which descended by a somewhat 

 steep slope to the ravine, on the brink of which, facing from it, 



