TtVO PANTHERS BAGGED.

It is very difficult to judge of animals in the moonlight, as it has the effect of making them look nearly double their size.

Our new friend roared, as we thought, just like a lion, and was answered by angry growls from the wounded animal by the bank. As soon as he got broadside to the carcass, we both fired ; with a roar, he sprang up the side, into the dhoiLm-2\m bushes, without giving us the chance of another shot. There we heard him groan, every now and then, throughout the night. We quite thought we had shot a lion and a lioness ; we felt sure the second was a lion, and that the first, which we had taken for a leopard, must be his mate.

No more beasts of the forest visited us that night ; and, as soon as day dawned, we descended from our perch, to see the result of the night's work. We found the first beast was a small male panther ; and after first carefully ascertaining that the "lion," as we felt sure it was, had not gone through the bushes, and up the bank above them, we searched for traces of blood, which we soon found in abundance. We were not long in tracking our ''lion;" which proved, to our disappointment, to be a large panther, lying quite dead in the bushes. We had both hit each panther, so we took one apiece ; and, having cleaned them, we put them on a camel, that we might take them to camp as they were. On our way back, I left Lort Phillips to go on with the panthers, and turned off to the right, taking an Arab with me, in the hope of seeing some game. I came across the marks of several giraffes : the country looked perfect for them, — plenty of covert, and any number of green trees. I had a shot at a large kind of wildcat, which I missed ; and then climbed to the top of a hill to view the surrounding country, in the hope of seeing game. I had no sooner reached the top, than I espied a lion lying under the shade of a tree, at about two or three hundred yards distance.