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After about half a minute, ] could not re-
sist the temptation, the desire felt to read
my doom. ! slightly turned my head, only
the least in life, and bchcld the lioncss lick
ing her paw, through which ball had evil
IDENTITY passed; the blood was also flowing
copously from her jaw, where my discharge
had in the first instance taken eflect.--She
was sitting upon her launches in evident
agony. No sooner, however, did she per-
ceive the very slight movement which | had
made than she sprang up, and in the ncNt
moment felt her teeth penetrate my back
bone, while one of her claws tore my left
shoulder bare of flesh; in the next, she lift
cd me of the ground and carried me for
ward. This, however, was evidently an eff
fort to her. Her wonuced jaw refused to
meet but still she held me, screaming,
struggling, praying for death, tightly in her
teeth, as she bore me on with the same ease
with which she would have raised a kitten.
| shouted to my servants to fire. 1t seems
they feared to do so, lest by accident they
might destroy me instead of the animal.
Alas ! little did they know my feelings at
that moment Instant death, a release from
the cxcrutIatng torturcs was then suffering,
would have been the greatest favor they
could have conferred on me.
THUS was carried for about hundred
yards, when, overcome by pain, the lioncss
dropped me, and lying down, began to lick
the blood which sreamed from my wounds.
| could feel her rough tongue as it passed
along the bitten parts, and tore open the
tooth marks. | could feel her warm breath
as she placed her mouth TO my lacerated
shoulder. One grippe more, one single wound
in my throat, to which she was close, and
knew all would be over. even attempted
to turn over to her to offer it to her jaws.
She placed her paw upon the bare bone of
my shoulder, and rolled me back, adding
another. and possible, more acute pang
to my suffering. Again she began TO suck
up my blood as | lay grooming beneath her.
My servants, suppose, rallied and alar
med her. for she suddenly once more started
up, and making her teeth meet IN my left
arm, began to drag me away. Great Ilea-
vcns feel even at this moment the same
agony | then endured. In recalling the tor
lures of that Instant, always fancy again
experienced the pain she caused me, as she
dragged me along, evidently bearing me to-
wards her lair to feed her whelps. Suffer
ing as | was knew all this read my doom
and shuddcrcd at it. Twice did the hcsh
break away from my arm, and twice did she
renew her savage hold on me, and that so
powerfully, that she succeeded in getting me
inside the jungle. Here she paused, unable
from pain TO proceed further. Two or three
shots were fired at her without success.
at length. finding her situation perilous,
and her prey likely TO escape, she retired "A
few PAGES, and determining on one effort,
raised herself, and opened her huge Jaws,
suddenly bounded on me, felt her teeth,
but she stirred not. lnthc next moment |
was released from the ponderous load, and
lifted up,-tle lioncss lay dead at my feet.
She had expired in the very act of destroy
ing me. She had ceased TO exist as she at
tempted TO destroy me. She died on me.
l tainted. was taken in palanquin in
state Of inscnsbilily, ncary three hundred
miles, and was treated for two years as an
invalid. a; last | was recommended to try
the air Of my native country. returned to
Europe, and here am.
Poor fellow he is now no more. Es-
capped from tho pcrils of the East, he has
found home in his native land. Rcqui-
cSCat IN pare.