PLEASURES OF PILGRIMAGE 147 off into the jungle. Then all my men gave a wild shout of excitement : "A lion ! a lion ! " As a matter of fact it was a lioness. I snatched my rifle and tried to get a shot, for it would have been a fine feather in my cap to begin my career as a hunter by bringing down… … ANT-HILL IN THE JUNGLE. {Photograph by Captain Po\vell-Cotto\.) been told that I could not possibly have brought her down with my '303 unless I chanced to hit her in one of a very few vital spots, whereas if I had wounded her, or even if she had been annoyed by the sound of a rifle, she would…
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