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deceived them. I learned from them alfo, 
that they had heard the fnorting of fome hip- 
popotami above the place in which they had 
hid themfelves : this account renewed my 
hopes ; but, as v/e had great need of repofe, I 
retired to my tent. Scarcely had I fallen 
afleep, when, at about half an hour after ele- 
ven, I was fuddenly alarmed by the roaring 
of a lion, which was heard by another, that 
feemed at firfl: to anfwer from a very great 
diftance ; but in a quarter of an hour the latter 
joined him, and both of them began to prowl 
around our camp. We marched about, how- 
ever, with fo much boldnefs and fpeed, and 
we fired fo often, that we intimidated them 
by the noife, and obliged them to depart. 
We were now under no doubt that they were 
the fame v/hich had followed our hunters. 
On this occafion they were indebted for their 
fafety to the dogs, which they had carried 
along with them : being informed by them 
of the danger which threatened them, the 
fignalo of diflrefs direded to us had been fuf- 
ficient to keep the enemy at a diftance. 
It is hardly poffible to conceive how much 
the boldeft dogs tremble on the approach of a 
lion. Nothing is fo eafy as to difcovcr, by 
their 
