fired. As he did so, I saw the elephant,
startled by the sound, swerve on one side, its feet passing close to
where I lay, but it did not appear even to see me. Away it went,
trumpeting loudly and crashing through the underwood.

The next instant Toko leaped down from his perch and hurried towards me,
when, turning my head, I caught sight of the lion struggling on its
back, and attempting to regain its feet. Toko, lifting me in his arms,
carried me a few paces off, and taking up my rifle again approached the
lion and shot it dead. Almost at the same instant the sound of another
rifle reached our ears.

"Go and help Harry," I said to Toko; "he may want your assistance."

"I place you in safer place dan dis," he answered; and, again taking me
up, he propped me against the root of a large tree close by; then
reloading my rifle, he put it into my hands. He next reloaded his own.

"I must go and help Harry," he said; and away he bounded.

I had wished him to go and assist my friend, but scarcely had he
disappeared than the dreadful idea came into my head that another lion--
companion of the one just killed--might be prowling about and discover
me. In spite of the pain I suffered, I endeavoured to rise on my knees,
so that should one appear I might take a better aim than I could lying
down. Still, should my apprehensions be realised, I felt that I should
be placed in a very dangerous predicament. One thing, however, was
certain, that it could not be worse than the one from which I had just
escaped. Few people have been situated as I have been, with a lion
about to spring from one side, and an elephant appearing on the other.

Doing my best to keep up my spirits, I listened attentively to try and
ascertain what was happening to Harry. Presently there was more loud
trumpeting and directly afterwards two shots were fired in rapid
succession. This assured me that Harry had escaped and that Toko had
reached the scene of action. The Makololo was too clever and
experienced an elephant hunter to be taken at disadvantage, and I had
great hopes that he had succeeded in killing the animal.

I did not forget my fears about another lion, and cast my eyes anxiously
around almost expecting to see one emerge from the thicket, while at the
same time I looked out eagerly for the return of my friend.

Once more the trumpeting burst forth, the sounds echoing through the
forest. I thus knew that the elephant had not yet falle