CHAP. XXII- 
A LION-HUNT. 
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CHAPTER XXIL 
A LION-HUNT: NATAL, 1865. 
While Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, in 1865, I had 
occasion (in fact, it became my duty) to proceed to the 
north-east border of the Colony, in order to allay the 
excitement amongst the Dutch farmers caused by the 
Basuto inroad into British territory. I first proceeded 
to the banks of the Tugela River, at Fort Buckingham, 
where I was met by a large body of Zulus, assembled to 
demonstrate their loyalty to the Government. On that 
day there had been a tiger-hunt, and a fine skin of a 
fresh-killed tiger was presented to me. This tiger was 
in the habit of carrying off the goats from one of the 
kraals, and the hunt was got up to kill him Dogs had 
brought the beast to bay, and the Zulus were closing 
on him with spears ; there were some few guns, and 
one shot had wounded the tiger, when it made a spring 
on to one of the men and killed him on the spot before 
receiving its death-wound. After crossing the Tugela 
River higher up, we passed on towards Newcastle, 
between that river and the Buffalo River. 
