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THE LION. 
44 1 ran up in time to see Woodhouse draw his 
arm from the brute’s jaws. He was, poor fellow, 
more composed than could be expected. His arm 
was mashed to a pulp—his thumb hanging by a bit 
of skin, and the hand otherwise dreadfully bitten 
through. I had him conveyed to our tent, and 
having splinted the arm, at night he was taken into 
camp, where medical aid awaited him. 
44 The lion, on being brought to the village, was 
found to have received from twenty-five to thirty- 
balls, many of them in the head but none, with 
the exception of the last, had actually penetrated 
the brain.”* 
C. Delamaine. 
In India lions were formerly more numerous than 
at the present day; and the chasse of those beasts 
was the favourite sport of the native Princes- 
The great ambition of the Mogul, in the time of 
Aurungzebe was, when mounted, to kill a lion, 
as such an event not only gratified his pride, but 
was looked on as a favourable prognostic for the 
realm. Bernier, after telling us that hunting that 
animal was the most perilous of amusements, and 
peculiarly royal, as, except by special permission, 
the king and princes were the only persons per- 
* To this narrative of his adventure the Major appended the 
following note. 
“London, 10th March, 1846. 
“ My dear Lloyd, 
“You have nearly killed me. I don’t get home till very late, and 
then have an hour or two * at the old lion’ to undergo. 
“ Yours truly, 
“C. D- 
