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ambush. The lioness left the path, advanced up to 
the tree in which the man was seated, and crouched 
at the foot of it. The lion in the meanwhile remained 
stationary in the path-way, and appeared to listen. 
66 Mohammed now heard in the distance a scarcely 
distinguishable roaring, to which the lioness re¬ 
sponded. The fawn-coloured lion then began to 
roar most awfully, which so frightened the chasseur 
that, to prevent himself from falling to the ground, 
he clung to the branches, and in the act of so 
doing his gun dropped from out of his hands. 
“ The nearer the stranger lion approached the 
spot, the louder roared the lioness. The fawn- 
coloured lion now became furious, left the pathway 
and went up to her, apparently to impose silence, 
and then retraced his steps to the spot he had just 
quitted, as if to say, c Well! let him come, I am 
quite ready for him !’ 
€C An hour afterwards, a lion, black as a wild 
boar, made his appearance at the lower end of the 
glade mentioned. The lioness rose from the ground, 
seemingly with the intention of going up to him ; but 
the fawn-coloured lion, divining her purpose, bounded 
past her direct for the enemy. Both lions crouched 
prior to taking their spring, and then rushing on 
one another fell together on the sward, never again 
to rise ! 
“ The duel was long, and terrible to the witness 
of it. 
c; Whilst the bones cracked under the jaws of 
the two powerful combatants, their claws strewed 
the glade with each others’ entrails, and their roars, 
