With Flashlight and Rifle -9, 



cubs especially — are quick to attack, antl consequently 

 dano'erous. 1 alwciys prefer to shoot the lioness first, the 

 lion afterwards — as the foruK^r is a])t sometimes to spring 

 on you while you are aiming at her mate. In this she 

 compares very advantageously with him. tor he shows no 

 such gallantry. Natives have often told me the same 

 thing. 



Lions that arc; not hungry almost always a\()id an 

 encounter with men. Of course there are exceptions, as 

 will be o'athered from mv own account ot a lion-hunt 

 on the heights of Kiku\ai. Keepers in zoological gardens 

 have observed the same thing. Lions, they say, show 

 every decree of good-humour or ill-tem[)er according to 

 their age and the way they haxe been reared and looked 

 after. Wdiat can be done by careful treatment is shown 

 by the almost |)roverbial methods of the trainer Have- 

 mann, who mo\es in and out among his animal pupils in 

 the rJerlin Zoological Ciardens in the friendliest manner, 

 without ever having to use force with them, simply as 

 the result of the excellent way in which he looks atter 

 them. 



Although it is often asserted that lions are gi\en, like 

 leopards, to making their wa\- into houses at night timci 

 and carrying off human beings from inside, 1 ha\e 

 come across few authentic cases of this kind. \\ hilc the 

 Us'anda railway was in course ol construction, two otticials 

 connected with it were spending the; night in a railway 

 waty^'^on, the door of which was lelt open on account ot 

 the heat. Awakened by a noise, one ot them, who was 

 sleei)ing upon a high bed-contrivance, looked down to 



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