All four ran towards a den in the ravines.

The sipahees followed as fast as they could; but the three cubs had got in before the sipahees could come up with them, and the boy was half way in when one of the sipahees caught him by the hind leg, and drew him back.

He seemed very angry and ferocious, bit at them, and seized in his teeth the barrel of one of their guns, which they put forward to keep him off, and shook it.

They however secured him, brought him home, and kept him for twenty days.

They could for that time make him eat nothing but raw flesh, and they fed him upon hares and birds.