tg2 TRAVELS IlSf 
In fuch clrcumftances what was to be doile t 
Prudence forbade us to advance to attack the 
animal during the darknefs of the night: fo that 
we were forced to remain on the watch till fun- 
rife, in uncertain anxiety and alarm, a thoufand 
times more painful than real danger; only- 
firing a gun, from time to time, towards the 
place to which our beafts diredled their looks* 
Our gunf^ did not prevent the Hons from mak- 
ing their awful and tremendous roar refound 
from different parts of the mountain : but what 
greatly heightened our fears, and not without 
reafon, was one of my oxen, which we heard 
at forty paces diftance, ftruggling for fome 
time, and uttering the hollow moans of an 
animal in the pangs of death ; fo that we had 
no doubt of his having been feized by one of 
the lions. 
Day at length illuming the horizon termi- 
nated the long and painful an!xiety of my cara- 
van. During the night the lions had in reality 
approached our camp ; for we perceived their 
footfteps in feveral places. I went to the fpot 
where we had heard the moaning ox, fully 
perfuaded that he had been devoured ; but, to 
our great furprife, we found he had beeni 
wounded 
