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EAGLE. 
which remained in the warm water. Away he 
went slowly along the ground as he had come. The 
face of the cliff over which criminals are thrown 
took him from our sight. The Mahometans that 
drove the asses, who had, as we have already ob- 
served in the course of the journey, suffered from 
the hyaena, were much alarmed, and assured me of 
his return. My servants, on the other hand, very 
unwillingly expected him, and thought he had al- 
ready more than his share. 
“ As I had myself a desire of more intimate ac- 
quaintance with him, I loaded a rifle gun with ball, 
and sat down close to the platter by the meat. It 
was not many minutes before he came, and a pro- 
digious shout was raised by my attendants. He is 
coming ! He is coming ! enough to have dis- 
couraged a less courageous animal. Whether he 
was not quite so hungry as at the first, or suspected 
something from my appearance, I know not ; but 
he made a small turn, and sat 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 
opposite to some of my people, and so that he might 
actually get the rest of the meat and make off, I 
shot him with the ball through the middle of his 
body, about two inches below the wing, so that he 
lay down upon the grass without a single flutter. 
Upon laying hold of his monstrous carcase, I was 
not a little surprised at seeing my hands covered 
4lid tinged with yellow powder or dust. Upon 
