1 hoot the beast, when amazement and dismay got hold upon us, for close at hand was a lion stealthily stalking the crocodile. We diverted ourselves with this strange sight for a length of time, when suddenly the lion sprang and seized the unclean brute by the neck; the crocodile writhed and lashed furiously with its tail and then lay dead upon the ground. At this spectacle our wonderment increased, and we called upon God to guard us from all evil. Then my companion wished to shoot the lion, but I forbade him., saying, that, as he could not himself slay a crocodile by biting it in the neck, so I would shoot the man who destroyed the creature that could. We then approached the crocodile of which the bulk was so vast that, when I bestrode it, my feet but scarcely touched theground. We took its musk and, as the shades of evening where now lengthening into night, we stayed where we were at no great distance from the crocodile, intending to renew the chase on the following day. But ever through the dark watches of the night there moved and mouthed the prowling lions which had collected to devour the dead brute : sleep was far from our eyes by reason of the disturbance that they created, now wailing, now growling, or again challenging the very skies with their awe-inspiring roars. With the first streak of early dawn the noises were hushed, and we plucked up courage to see what had befallen during the night. And when wc had drawn near the crocodile,