47^ park's second journey. 
dred yards farther, at an opening in the bushes, 
three lions were seen advancing towards them. 
They were very large, and came bounding over 
the long grass, following, but abreast of each 
other. Mr Park advanced to meet them ; and, 
when they were at a long shot, he fired at the 
centre one. He did not conceive himself to 
have struck it ; but they all stopped, looked at 
each other, and then bounded away. Mr Park, 
having reloaded his piece, on looking up, saw the 
last of them march slowly off among the bushes. 
Half a mile farther, he heard another growl ; ^ 
but they did not again make their appearance. 
Soon after, Mr Park found himself entangled 
in a species of ground peculiar to Africa. A 
stratum of stiff yellow clay is broken into fissures, 
fourteen or twenty feet deep, with very steep 
sides. About dark, Mr Park was so entangled in 
these horrid gullies, that he was obliged to pass 
the night in one of them. Separate as he was 
from the rest of his party, and with Mr Anderson 
in a high fever, this threatened to be productive 
of great distress. His companion, however, slept 
wonderfully well, and in the iporning he rejoined 
the others, who had spent the night in the same 
manner, at about half a mile's distance. 
On the 15th, at a village called Dombila, Mr 
Park met Karfa Taura, from whom he had expe- 
rienced such signal kindness in his former journey. 
