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panions, aroused by the scuffle, snatched up their 
guns, and, not knowing one of their number had been 
carried off, shot in the direction from which the noise 
proceeded. One ball happened to wound the lion, 
and, in trying to roar, it let me drop from its grasp, on 
which I instantly ran off, leaving my mantle, and 
bolted in amongst my friends, crying out, 6 Don’t 
shoot me!’ for they supposed at the moment I was 
the lion.” The individual in question, Moffatt goes 
on to say, £C showed the ugly marks of the beast on 
his shoulder.” 
Moffatt himself, on two several occasions, would 
appear to have been in considerable jeopardy from 
lions. 
After telling us “ that it is a pleasing, sometimes 
an exciting, exercise, to look back on the rugged 
path which we have been called to tread, and to 
recount the dangers from which a gracious provi¬ 
dence has rescued us, several of which, in my case, 
have been so striking that, when I recall the cir¬ 
cumstances, I am forcibly impressed with the 
sentiment, that man is immortal until his work 
is done,” he goes on to say :— 
u On the present journey, when travelling alone 
in a woody and sequestered place, I left the direct 
road, to avoid a ford where there were many 
crocodiles. I had not proceeded two stone casts, 
when it suddenly occurred to me that I should like 
to examine a projecting rock which lay beyond the 
path I had left. After examining the object which 
had attracted my attention, I turned towards the 
place whence I had come, in order to retrace my 
