Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-03

down and bit savagely at the lower part Of my thigh, gradually wofhihs upward with d powerful suction. NeV- CT once did he attempt to break a pone and kill his victim outright. You ask if the bites and laceratiohs caused me any physical pain: Aoso- lutely none l both heard and leit tue insertion of the fanSs ill q Yer. cNflolle sort of way, as though l were uleiei the influence of chloroform, for e4aul- pie.
 About the same time became aware that the brute had laid me uo"h under q tree at the edge of the clear ing and had again put his huge paws on my breast, as though to say It Was his prey and could not be taken rom him. All this time, remember tne blackuess of the night hid everything but his flaming eyes, whose lntenslts seemed to wax and wane according 'o events.
 ."Thonas for some reason or other persisted ill entering my tent even art CT the lion had leaped out with me. lie speedily pursued us and had by thls time succeeded in inducing some of the negroes to come down from the trees and light the resnous torches.
 "It was a weird scene-the harlns lights. like hambeauX, carried hl1hef and thither by the negroes, While Thomas himself, shouting like d mad man. rushed across to the tree Where the lion stood over me.
 "I think the beast was thoroughly alarmed and ready to stand at bay and defend his prey, but again lapsed into delirium, with the result, as Iho'nas told me later, that l began for the first time to call for help. Driven nearly frantic by my tone, Thomas rushed up to the lion, stuck tLe muZZle of his rlde against the monstrous head and pulled the trigger.
 But the rifle jammed.
 with d muttered exclamation Thom- as clubbed the otherwise useless rifle and brought the butt end down on the upreared head with all the force of a frenzied man. But the blow had no more effect than the buZZing of a bee. What the force of the impact did do, however. was to ruin q favorite rifle by breaking it in two.
 Shouting further orders to the ne groes, who were huddled covering ill the distance, Thomas rushed across the 1 clearing to my tent. where he found and loaded my rife. Thus armed he returned to the attack. the lion having meanwhile remained stationary, groWl ing at the torches and the negroes.
 Approaching cautiously for the sec ond time, my assistant crept straight up to the puzzled and worried animal placed the muzZle quite close to his eye and blew out his brains. Stimuli taneously, am told upon being re leased from the ponderous weight. arose to my feet, notwithstanding tht previous ordeal. and actually ran abou a hundred yards. Then came utter col lapse.
 Thomas and a negro then carried m' to my tent, where q quantity of ho water was prepared. But the instan the hot water touched my laceration the agony became something unbear able.
 My yells scared some of the negroe into the forest and brought other clamoring about the tent. They IL doubt thought my last hour was a hand, as, indeed, it nearly was q hand, for Thomas had forcibly to re strain me from reaching for my revolv CT and ending the agonizing pain the and there.
 ''As is well known, the greatest dan ger under such circumstances is tn likelihood of poisoning the dirt gath cred under the claws of such animal being the great source of peril; henc it was necessary to bathe my wound in water and whisky. And my whol body seemed to be one continuou wound.
 "We were 700 miles from the neares missionary doctor and how 1 survive