LION HUNTING ON THE KAPITI PLAINS 81 
down the trail in the bright silver light, chanting in deep 
tones, over and over again, a line or phrase that sounded 
like: 
^‘Zou-zou~boule ma ja guntai; zou~zou~boule ma ja guntai.” 
Occasionally they would interrupt it by the repetition in 
unison, at short intervals, of a guttural ejaculation, sound¬ 
ing like ''huzlem/" They marched into camp, then up 
and down the lines, before the rows of small fires; then, 
accompanied by all the rest of the porters, they paraded up 
to the big fire where I was standing. Here they stopped 
and ended the ceremony by a minute or two’s vigorous 
dancing amid singing and wild shouting. The firelight 
gleamed and flickered across the grim dead beasts, and the 
shining eyes and black features of the excited savages, 
while all around the moon flooded the landscape with her 
white light. 
