1873.] 



A NIGHT ATTACK. 



It was evident that the donkey had been seized by the nose, 

 and instantly killed. At daylight the spoor showed that the 

 guns had taken effect. The lion's blood lay in a broad track 

 (for he was apparently injured in the back, and could only 

 drag himself along) ; but the footprints of a second lion were 

 too plain to make it advisable to track him far in the thick 

 cover he had reached, and so the search was abandoned. 

 The body of the donkey was left behind, but two canoes 

 remained near the village, and it is most probable that it 

 went to make a feast at Chisalamalama's. 



An old Servant destroyed. 



Travelling through incessant swamp and water, they were 

 fain to make their next stopping-place in a spot where an 

 enormous ant-hill spread itself out, — a small island in the 

 waters. A fire was lit, and by employing hoes, most of 



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