. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . ball entered one shoulder and passed out behind the then bounded forward with repeated growls, and was followedby her five comrades all enveloped in a cloud of dust; nor did theystop until they had reached the cover behind me, except one old gentleman, who halted and looked back for a few seconds, when I fired,but the ball went high. I listened anxiously for some sound to de-note the approaching end of the lioness; nor listened in vain. Iheard her growling and stationary, as if dying. In one minute hercomrades crossed the vley a little below me, an
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . ball entered one shoulder and passed out behind the then bounded forward with repeated growls, and was followedby her five comrades all enveloped in a cloud of dust; nor did theystop until they had reached the cover behind me, except one old gentleman, who halted and looked back for a few seconds, when I fired,but the ball went high. I listened anxiously for some sound to de-note the approaching end of the lioness; nor listened in vain. Iheard her growling and stationary, as if dying. In one minute hercomrades crossed the vley a little below me, and made towards therhinoceros. I then slipped Wolf and Boxer on her scent, and fol-lowing them into the cover, I found her lying dead within tw mtyyards of where the old lion had lain two nights before. This was afine old lioness, with perfect teeth, and was certainly a noble prize;but I felt dissatisfied at not having rather shot a lion, which 1 hadmost certainly done if my Hottentot had not unfortunately destioyedHt eontemplatioa. CHAPTER LXVL A EAKV CHASE OF AN ELEPHANT. The i)llo\*ing narrative of an encounter with an elephant, is anap/ the uiost interesting, of Mr. Cummings adventures in SouthA frica. It occurs at the beginning of his second volume, as follows:I remained at Sabie, hunting elephant and rhinoceros with success,till the morning of the 22nd of August, when I inspanned, andmarched for Mangmaluky, which we reached at sundown, when Idrew up my wagons in an open grassy glade on a rather elevatedcwsition, commanding a fine view of the bold outline of the surroundl^g mountains. Oh the march I shot a white rhinoceros in the actof charging down a rocky face, with all the dogs in full pursuit ofhim. The ball disabled him in the shoulder, when, pitching uponhis head, he described the most tremendous somersault, comingdown among the stones and bushes with the overwhelming violenceof an avalanche. On the 27th I cast loose my horses at earliest dawn of day, andthen lay half
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