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ceed in the chase, except at night,” he goes on 
to say : — 
“ At that season (the winter), therefore, one not 
unfrequently sees those beasts in the day-time 
hunting in large companies. The larger portion? 
after forming a line, surround and drive the game 
towards the gorges, the defiles, and such passes in 
the wood as are dense and difficult to traverse, 
where one or more of the troop station themselves. 
Such are the battues, conducted according to rule? 
and without noise; the emanations proceeding from 
the lions, who always keep to windward of the 
quarry, being sufficient to constrain the animals to 
retreat before them. 
C£ On two several occasions, and that with only a 
few minutes’ intervals between them,” Delegorgue 
goes on to say, “ I and my chasseurs came suddenly 
(the dense brake having previously intercepted our 
view) on such a line of lions; twenty at first, thirty 
afterwards. A rhinoceros which we were c stalking ’ 
appeared to be their specially-coveted object. Un¬ 
fortunately our presence deranged their plan of 
attack, and their presence constrained us to abandon 
our first intention; and thus the rhinoceros owed 
its safety to the ideas which simultaneously took pos¬ 
session of two of its most formidable enemies.” 
Gordon Gumming fully corroborates what Dele¬ 
gorgue says as to the cunuing the lion displays when 
hunting in company. 
“ I had,” he writes, “ lain about twenty minutes 
in the waggon after my people had all started, and 
w T as occupied in reading a book, when suddenly I 
