. Old Ironsides, the hero of Tripoli and 1812, and other tales and adventures on sea and land . a woman. The big lion had leaped the stockade of aherdsman and seized a calf, and as he was pre-paring to spring out again the woman ran at gave him a w7ound just above the eyes. Thisleft a scar, which added greatly to the lions fero-cious aspect, and also served to identify him. Inthe six months previous to our arrival at WadiHaifa the big beast had killed and eaten fiftynatives, and hardly a night passed that he didnot slaughter a horse, an ox, or a sheep. He haddriven all other lions away
. Old Ironsides, the hero of Tripoli and 1812, and other tales and adventures on sea and land . a woman. The big lion had leaped the stockade of aherdsman and seized a calf, and as he was pre-paring to spring out again the woman ran at gave him a w7ound just above the eyes. Thisleft a scar, which added greatly to the lions fero-cious aspect, and also served to identify him. Inthe six months previous to our arrival at WadiHaifa the big beast had killed and eaten fiftynatives, and hardly a night passed that he didnot slaughter a horse, an ox, or a sheep. He haddriven all other lions away and had the field to 154 OLD IRONSIDES. himself, and so great was the terror he had in-spired that travel over certain roads and paths tothe west of the village had been entirely sus-pended even in the daytime. Five miles west ofthe village was a broken, wooded district of fifteenmiles long by several miles broad, and in thisrange the lion was safe. He was heard of as far down as Sioot, one hundred and fifty miles north,/ t/ / - •— T: Wr^ 9- v; J>lwi I -JyS3|j|||: A MAGNIFICENT LION. and as far u]> as Old Dongola, one hundred milessouth, but the greater portion of his time wasspent near Wadi Haifa. Had we desired the death of the lion, weshould have gone out with our guns and popped athim, but he was no good to us unless we capturedhim alive, and without serious injury. We spenttwo days looking the ground over, and then de- A MIGHTY HUNTER. 155 cided to try the simplest plan first. Sharp menare always posted on sharp tricks. It is the^samewith a wild beast who has been much hunted. Heis looking for his enemies to catch him by somenew trick. The natives had regarded this lionas too well posted to fall into a pit, and none hadever been dug. We selected a path which he hadused so often to come down to a pool of water inthe hills that he had beaten it hard, and here wetied a sheep. The old fellow took the bait thefirst night. On the next night we left another,but the lio
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