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not expected, he withdrew it, and forfook the pie ce which 

 he held. 



There were two large pieces, a leg and a fhoulder, lying 

 upon a wooden platter, into thefe he trufTed both his claws, 

 and carried them off, but I thought he looked willfully at 

 the large piece which remained in the warm water. Away 

 he went flowly along the ground as he had come. The 

 face of the cliff over which criminals are thrown took him 

 from our light. The Mahometans that drove the afTes, who 

 had, as we have already obferved in the courfe of the jour- 

 ney, fuffered from the hyasna, were much alarmed, and af- 

 fured me of his return. My fervants, on the other hand, 

 very unwillingly expected him, and thought he had already 

 more than his fliare. 



As I had myfelf a delire of more intimate acquaintance 

 with him, I loaded a rifle -gun with ball, and fat down clofe 

 to the platter by the meat. It was not many minutes before 

 he came, and a prodigious Ihout was raifed by my attend- 

 ants, He is coming, he is coming, enough to have difcouraged 

 a lefs courageous animal. Whether he was not quite fo 

 hungry as at the firft vilit, or fufpccted fome thing from my 

 appearance, I know not, but he made a fmall turn, and fat 

 down about ten yards from me, the pan with the meat being 

 between me and him. As the field was clear before me, and 

 I did not know but his next move might bring him oppofite 

 to fome of my people, and fo that he might actually get the 

 reft of the meat and make off, I ihot him with the ball 

 through the middle of his body about two inches below the 

 wing, fo that he tfy down upon the grafs without a linglc 

 flutter. Upon laying hold of his monftrous carcafe, I was 



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