Many a
time when attempting to force my way through this
bewildering tangleI had to be released by my gun-
bearer from the fast clutches of the "wrait-a-bit"
;and often with immense painsI succeeded in tracing
the lions to the river after they had seized a victim,
only to lose the trail from there onwards, owing to

the rocky nature of the ground which they seemed
to be careful to choose in retreating to their den.

Chapter 2