Year: 1870




"This was good advice, and followed
II as quickly as could. AT frat, on rising,
l found myeelf so stiff that could hardly
move my limbs, Butthe blood soon, be.
gan to circulate az ain, and when / had
loaded up we moved off toward the wag-
ons Apollo ran before me all the way,
still In terrible fright, with frying pan
on his head and a firebrand in his right
hand, jumping and screaming like a mad
man to scare the wild beasts


We got safely TO the out-span place,
and when | had something to stay my
hunger, l made Apollo tell me how he
managed the affair, which was still amYs
terry me found that the poor fellow
had tried hard ali day TO induce the other
men to Join him In going to my relief
They made one attempt In the morning,
as l mentioned; but their hearts failed
them. At night Apollo made up his mind
30 Undertake the business by h imself, and
he set about it in really ingenious man
ner. He took one of my large frying
pans, ard covered the inside with a thin
coating of gunpowder, Just enough moist-
ened to make 1t burn slowly. Over this
he placed some straw which used for
packing, and sprinkled dry powder upon
it ana on the top of all he raised little
heap of brushwood and dry sticks. With
this on his head, he started from the wag'
ons Just after dark. When he had come
about half way, he lay down and crawled
towsrd me 80 slowly and cautiously that
the lion did not observe him until he was
within hundred yards Of us, Then II
was that the brute first rose up and began
growing. ..


"Apollo said that when he heard 1t his
heart became as cold as ice, and he almost
went into tit. He lay perfectly still until
the lion became quiet, and he then began
again to creep for ward, dragging himself
along on the ground, inch by inch, ane
resting for minute or two at every yard
he made.


"At last, when he thought he was neal
enough, he took out a lucifer-match from
box which he had brought from the
wagon and lighted it. He touched thu
straw, which blazed up immediately.
was while he was doing this that the lior
became so much excitedi but Apollo lef
him no time to act, for he dashed IL
upon US, as l have told you, with th'
| fry ing pan on his head and burning
stick in his hand, and routed the enem.
at once. lH


$50 now you know the reason why
feel such particular regard for the littl
Namaqua. really believe he shove,
more ingenuity and courage in saving m.
life than he could have mustered to pre-
serve his own"


Apollo had certainly behaved in mos
credltable manner, anG | was ready to ad
NIT that he deserved all the good that hi
master could do for him. As for the lion
| supposed nothing more was seen o
heard of hun. y.a.. ri


"You are mistaken there" said Hutton
az have the best part of him now at m.
house. l had an account to settle wit
the rascal for the horrid torture / ha
suffered through him. Besides, as b
was eminently man eater it would no
have done TO leave him at large, if coul
help it. l was sure he would not quit tn
pool so long as the oxen remained nea
it; and as l knew that two other traders
johnson and lie Roux, were only day o
two behind me, waited till they cam
up, and we all went out together wi.
our people and dogs. We hu ted for tw
days heTore we could manage to turn tn
old cannibal out of his den, among som
rocks and bushes.


"Johnson happened to be nearest
him and bowled him over at long sho
capital shot it was, too the ball went
behind the right shoulder and came OF
under the LETT flank. l gave johnson fiV
pounds for the skin, which l mean TO hay
stuffed and set up at home, in memory {
the day passed with the living owne
and the day after The first l considC
to have been the most miserable day, an
the other the happiest that | have eve
spent in all my ife."-At Home an
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