The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-12
AN ENCOUNTER.
aY AN AERlcAN auNrxR.

Ry AN AFRICAN HUNTER. When was in the in,esi@r of South AIEica iOhaoiseG by the Gs,4ass. lad . and fearful encounter with a ioness.
 had been shooting antelopes when the dven,ure occurred which 1 am about to describe.
 1 observed a rumher of vultares seated ID the plain about quarter of milo head ot us, and close beside them stood huge honess, consuming a bleSbok sh'ch she had killed
 She was assisted in her repast by Abou, dosen jackals.
 Directing my followers attention, re marked;
 "I see the hon;" to which they re. lied:
 "Whara wharf Yah! Almag,igi that ' he;' aud instantly re,ning in then tecds and wheeling about were prepM ng to 6etake themselves to flight. l asked them what they were going to 10.
 To which they ans~ered; We have not yet placed caps on our files"
 While this shor, conversation was pass ny, the honess had ooseEvt d us. K uSinR her face, she ovcVh hauled us for les seconds and then set otf toward a auge of mountains some miles to the the ] tckals also started oti in mother duec,ion. There vas, therefore 70 tune to think of caps
 The hrst move was to bYiug her to bay, Squirting my steed aud shouting to my nen to follow, flew across the plain, and ,ainsd upon her a, every Sutde. The honcS having a long start on me se went over a consi ietahle extent oi ,tound before came up with her. Finding that gained upon her she e 'uoed her pace from a canter to A uoL lshou,ed loudly to her ,o halt. upon which she suddenly pulled up and sa. on her launches like a dog, wi'h he' back toward me, not even deigning to look round.
 She appeared 10 say to herself:
 Does thls fellow know who he Is Afetl'
 Having sat for halt a minute, she sprapg to her feet. and facing about, stood looking a, me for iew SC onds and kro~l,ng hsrcely. She next made a sho,t run forward, making c loud, rumbins noise. like thunder
 Finding that l did not finch nor ,eem 10 heed her hou demonSua tons she stretched out and lay down m the grass My Ho,ten'o o,s nos coming up, we all ,h,ec dismounied, and, craving our IiAss, looked to see t the poA der was up in the nipples and put en our caps.
 While this was doing the lioness >at up
 She looked first at us, and then be- hnd her; alter which she made a short run to~aTd Us, utteiing her deep drawn, murdeTc us gTowlA.
 Having sct uted the three horses to one Ano,hsr by their re,ns, ~e led hem on as ,f we intended to pass her in the hope oi obtaining bTos dude i. Bu, she avoided ,o expose. prtA sent iug only her !ull fsont had given I,oiolus orders to shoot her II she ,hould spring upon me.
 Eis.ahcY SAs tn stand ready to hand me my Purdy Tiae m case the
 ~o.GIooved Dixon should not prove sufficient. My men as Set had been he~dv, but they were in a precious stew, sDd had feeling that l could plaee no reliance on ,hem
 Nov, then, for hl ohe is within ux,y yards of us, and she keeps ad- vancipg. We turned the horses talls to her. knelt on one side and tsk- 'pg aim at her breast let f,. The bAil oraeked loudly on hsrtawny hide md crippled her in the shoulder upon shich she charged with an appsiting roar. and in the tSlnhling Of ap eye ahe was ia the midst oi us
 The .ioness sprang upon my horse and fearfully iaoegAied hi, iibs and nsunches ~i,h her teeth and ciass
 l was very cool and steady but [ must confess that when the whole .f .ir vas over fsli ,hs, t WAS very .~fui situation, as | had no trend ~ih me on whom l could rely.
 When the lioness sprang upon my seed 1 stood out from the horses 'eady with my second barrel for the first chance she should g,vc me cf a clear shot This she quicsiy cid fr she qui,,ed the horse and ,ro,,.d .ulkiiy past within few p ,ces of me taking one sep to the Jeff. pitched my rfi. to my shoulder snd in U
 ,tber sscond the iion.ss was stretched .n the p!a,n corpse.
 In the struggles Of death she half turned on her bAcs her mighty arm. nung po~erless by her side, her lower " fell blood s,seamed from her mouth md she expired. At the moment 1 hsed my second shot, S,ofoius aliosed tne hree horses to escape. These gailnped ransieaily across the pisia. on wh ch nc md K einbov inatantiv started af,~y inSu,