A LION STORY. 
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but the second, as may be obseryed by a note ap¬ 
pended to it, he wrote himself at my request. 
THE major’s EIRST LION STORY. 
<£ When quartered at Dessa, in Guzzerat, Major 
(then Lieutenant) Delamaine, and Captain Har¬ 
ris,* went out on one occasion near to the village 
of Barnun-Warra, for the purpose of killing a large 
lion that during three or four years had infested the 
country thereabouts, and in the while had not only 
destroyed much cattle but five of the inhabitants. 
C£ The gentlemen were mounted on separate ele¬ 
phants, and each was provided with at least three 
guns, or rifles, and they were attended by from 
fifteen to twenty natives on foot. 
££ The lion had been 6 marked down,’ in the early 
part of the morning, in the wooded banks of a tank, 
bordering on the cultivated lands of the village, 
which cover he had for some time haunted. The 
country in the vicinity was flat, and in general free 
from jungle. 
££ The beast was believed to have his lair in a patch 
of copse-wood where, from the jungle having been 
some years previously cut away by the natives for 
stakes and the like, the young trees had grown up 
again so close and tangled, as to be almost impene¬ 
trable. But the £ patch ’ w^as of no great extent, 
its area, perhaps, not exceeding that of Grosvenor 
Square. The other parts of the wood surround- 
# As elsewhere said, the late Sir Cornwallis Harris, one of the 
first of Indian sportsmen, and well known for his interesting works 
on Abyssinia, and the wild sports of Southern Africa. 
