THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 167° 
mon could be ; the change of place made no difference ; the 
difpofitions of the people towards Michael and his friends 
we knew to be the fame throughout the kingdom, and that 
our only fafety remained on certain and good news coming’ 
from the army, or in the finifhing our journey with expe-. 
dition, before any thing bad happened, or was certainly: 
known. | q 
Tue hyenas this-night devoured one of the beft of our 
mules. They are here in great plenty, and fo are lions ; the 
roaring and grumbling of the latter, in the part of the wood 
rieareft our tent, greatly difturbed our beafts, and prevented 
them from eating their provender. Ilengthened the ftrings 
of my tent, and placed the beafts between them. The white 
ropes, and the tremulous motion made by the impreffion | 
of the wind, frightened the lions from coming near us. I had 
procured from Jannitwo {mall brafs bells, fuch as the mules 
carry.. I.had. tied thefe to the ftorm-ftrings of.the tent,. 
where their noife, no doubt, . greatly contributed to our 
beafts fafety from thefe ravenous, yet cautious animals, fo 
that we never. faw them; but the noife. they made, and,. 
perhaps, their fmell, fo terrified the mules, that, in the morn- 
ing, they were drenched in fweat as if they had been a long | 
journey... 
Tue brutith hyena:was not fo to be deterred. . I {hot one 
of. them dead on the night of the 31f of January, and, on 
‘the 2d of :February, I fired at another. fo near, that I was 
confident of killing him. Whether the balls had fallen out, 
or that I had really miffed him with the firft barrel, I know: 
not; but he gave a fnarl and a kind of ‘bark upon the firft : 
fot, advancing dire@ly upon me as. if unhurt... The fecond:' 
fhor. 
