THE Cf MAN-EATER ” SLAIN. 63 
large flaming brand belaboured him on the head 
with the burning wood; but the brute did not 
take any notice of him. The Bushman had a nar¬ 
row escape, the lion haying inflicted two gashes in 
his seat with his claws. 
“ The next morning, just as the day began to 
dawn, we heard the lion dragging something up the 
river-side, under cover of the bank. We drove the 
cattle out of the kraal, and then proceeded to in¬ 
spect the scene of the night’s awful tragedy. In 
the hollow, where the lion had lain consuming his 
prey, we found one leg of the unfortunate Hendrich, 
bitten off below the knee, the shoe still on the foot, 
and fragments of the pea-coat lay around. Poor 
Hendrich ! I knew the fragments of that old coat, 
and had often marked them hanging in the dense 
covers where the elephant had charged after my 
unfortunate after-rider. Hendrich was by far the 
best man I had about my waggon, of a most cheer¬ 
ful disposition, a first-rate waggon-driver, fearless 
in the field, ever active, willing, and obliging; his 
loss to us all was very serious. I felt confounded 
and utterly sick in my heart.” 
It is satisfactory to add that the poor Hottentot, 
who met so horrible a death, was revenged on the 
afternoon of the following day, when Gordon Gum¬ 
ming gallantly attacked and slew the “ man-eater.” 
Happily, I may here remark in parenthesis, a 
similar calamity to those just recorded never 
occurred in my own encampment, though on 
various occasions, during the hours of darkness, 
lions have prowled about in its immediate vicinity, 
