Here is the skin of the beast who slew Ranji and, when I tell you that the leopard stood with one paw on me, you may guess that my escape was a narrow one." "The brute was a large one," one of the other men said, as Meinik--for such was the name of Stanley's companion--unrolled and held the skin up.

"I see it had a bullet between the eyes, and another just behind the ear; and there is a knife cut behind the shoulder.

It must have been hot work, when it came to knives, with a beast of that size." "Give us some food, and cocoa; we have eaten nothing today, and have walked far.

When we have fed, I will tell you my story." The Burman's recital of the adventure with the leopard excited great applause, and admiration, from his comrades.
"'Tis wonderful," one said, "not so much that our new comrade should have killed the leopard, though that was a great feat; but that, armed only with a knife, he should attack a beast like this, to save the life of a stranger.

Truly I never heard of such a thing.