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which enabled us to perceive objedls at a cer- 
tain diftance ; and when I faw my dogs ap- 
proach us, and keep clofc to us in a body, I 
was fully convinced that there were lions 
near us. Having fuddenly obferved two of 
thefe animals, which feemed to be waiting 
for us on a fmall eminence, we difcharged all 
our pieces together; but this produced no 
other effedt than to make them difappear. 
We however ftill advanced in the hopes of 
killing at leaft one of them, and, by way of 
precaution, we continued to difcharge our 
fufees, but we faw nothing more of them. 
As it w?.s of no avail to perfift in purfuing 
them farther, for they had by this time got 
to a confiderable diftance, and as our fires 
were well kindled, we approached them, while 
our fcattered oxen did the fame. They arrived 
at the fpot one after the other, and in a little 
time we had recovered them all, except thofe 
belonging to the Pampoen-kraal waggon, 
which we heard bellowing at a certain dif- 
tance. Though they were not far from us, 
none of my people fhewed any inciinatioa to 
go to their relief; but having at length pre- 
vailed upon a few of them to follow me, 
each of us took a flaming torch in the one 
Y 4 • hand, 
