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in all quarters by lions, one of whom actually visited 
his camp, he goes on to say, 
“ Being; resolved to circumvent one or other of 
these beasts, I, on the following morning, therefore 
took Taher JSToor, with Hadji Ali and Hassan, two 
of my trusty Tokrooris, and went straight to the 
spot where I left the carcass of the buffalo I had 
shot on the preceding day. As I had expected, 
nothing remained, not even a bone, the ground was 
much trampled, and tracks of lions were upon the 
sand, but the body of the buffalo had been dragged 
into the thorny jungle. I was determined, if possible, 
to get a shot; therefore, I followed carefully the 
track left by the carcass, which had formed a path 
in the withered grass. Unfortunately the lions had 
dragged the buffalo down wind, therefore, after I 
had arrived within the thick nabbuk and high grass 
I came to the conclusion that my only chance would 
be to make a long circuit, and to creep up wind 
through the thorns, until I should be advised by 
my nose of the position of the carcass, which would 
by this time be in a state of putrefaction, and the 
lions would most probably be with the body. Ac¬ 
cordingly, I struck off to my left, and continuing 
straight forward for some hundred yards, I again 
struck into the thick jungle, and came round to the 
wind. Success depended on extreme caution, there¬ 
fore I advised my three men to keep close behind 
me with the spare rifles, as I carried my single- 
barrelled Beattie. This rifle w T as extremely accurate, 
therefore I had chosen it for this close-work, when 
I expected to get a shot at the eye or the forehead 
