Eventually a lion broke to the open, like a driven buck, close to where one of the hunters was standing.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
At length the hunters, unable longer to endure the cold, were compelled to return to the ship, believing that the deer had escaped.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
For there were the hunters and the hunted.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher