. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. he got to me. However, he never discovered me, though heapproached to within 100 yards of the ant-heap on the side of which I wassitting. He then stopped, and after first looking towards me, turned round andonce more stood facing exactly away from me. This was my chance, so hastilyloading and putting down the 200-yards leaf sight, I again fired at him and againheard my bullet strike. With a loud growl he sprang forwards and then v\fentoff at a gallop. He turned almost immediately and, running almost broadside tome, made for
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. he got to me. However, he never discovered me, though heapproached to within 100 yards of the ant-heap on the side of which I wassitting. He then stopped, and after first looking towards me, turned round andonce more stood facing exactly away from me. This was my chance, so hastilyloading and putting down the 200-yards leaf sight, I again fired at him and againheard my bullet strike. With a loud growl he sprang forwards and then v\fentoff at a gallop. He turned almost immediately and, running almost broadside tome, made for a large ant-heap with some bushes growing on the top of it. Beforehe reached it I fired again and knocked him down, but after having lain still for afew moments he got up and half ran, half dragged himself to the ant-heap and,disappeared behind the bush on its summit. I now walked round and reconnoitredthe ant-heap behind which the lion had disappeared, and found that just beyond itthere was a small p^^ijh of unburnt grass quite six feet high, in which no doubt he. PI ohji I 1 I \ t Sinilh Esq IHOM ML\\ 01 ^^ VTLlibLCk LIINC O0S\h An African Game Haunt of the Past 231 was hiding. To have approached this patch of long grass across the open plainwould, I felt sure, have meant facing a fierce charge at close quarters, for thewounded lion had shown every sign of being a savage and determined 200 yards to the left of the place where the lion was lying was anotherant-heap at the foot of which grew two good-sized trees, and as I thought I mightbe able to see something from the top of one of them, I went back to whereI had left mj Kafirs, and taking one of them with me made a circuit and cameup behind the trees. My native attendant quickly climbed to the top of one ofthem, but declared he could see nothing of the lion, although he said that the patchof grass in which it was lying was very small. He then began to come down thetree again, talking all the time. He had got abo
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