With Flashlight and Riflu 



I\Ir. Wallihaii, my American tellcjw-sportsman, says 

 in his CaDicra Shots al Juo- Game ihat in thirty yc;ars 

 of hunting he lias only come once face to face with a 

 puma, the lion ot America. He has killed several, and 

 taken excehent photographs of still more. Ijut all these 

 were started Ijy dogs. This reminds me ot the tact 

 that 1 only once saw the hv:ena wliich I m\ sc^lt dis- 

 covered [Hywiia sc/u7/ii{<^si) in a state ot treedom 1)\- day, 

 though 1 have accounted for about ninety on various 

 occasions, and have photographed a great number ot 

 them by night. ( )ne of my most trustworthy soldiers, 

 who had long been in the service of the Government 

 as an Askari, never succeeded in getting a shot at a 

 lion, although, in accordance with the practice at that 

 time (since then \ery properly abandoned by order ot the 

 Governor, Count (.^otzen), he was given for man\- years 

 the exclusive right of shooting the wild animals in the 

 neighbourhood, and had l)roLight down thousands ot all 

 kinds — a line way of turning all the old cartridges in the 

 niafj^azine to account ! 



Among tra\ellers and sportsmen who have been 

 fortunate in British h^ast Africa I may mention the 

 Duk(; A. V. \-on iMecklcnlnirg and I'rince Lichtenstein. 

 It was in South AtVica that the unrivalled sportsman 

 F. C. Selous made his mark a good many years ago. 



In some instances \-oung lions ot onK' about ten months 

 old are to Ix- found in search ot pr^\' <"i thoir own 

 account, apart from tlieir mothers. The young lions which 

 I ha\e had opportunities of observing, or which I ha\'e 

 brought home to lun'ope, wore all strongK' marked with 



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