With Flashlight and Rifle 



vcrv incautious ol me to tackle two lions without waiting 

 tor liini. 



Xcxt morning I sent two messengers ^^•ith the news 

 to Mr. Hall at Fort Smith, and two others with a letter 

 lor tr.msmission to the leader of the expedition which 

 was presently to pass over the same route. 1 told him 

 of the chance he would have of getting some lion-shooting, 

 and afterwards I learnt that he saw eight lions together 

 on the same spot where 1 had shot mine, and that he 

 had fired at them at long range without result. 



My second lion was also a large old black-maned 

 animal, whose scarred and seamed skin told of many 

 a struggle with his own kind. It is noteworthy that, 

 whereas the lions in certain other regions of Africa — 

 those for instance to be met with tipstream in the Rutu 

 \ alley — often have no manes, but are quite smooth like 

 lionesses, these lions which lix'e in Kikuvu, which is 

 a relatively cold district and lies high, are provided with 

 abundant manes ot a dark colour. 



Now ensued a triumphal march to the camp, followed 

 l)y a caretui skinning of this second lion and the pre- 

 [^aration of both skins. Corporal Ellis thought it \\as 

 time for him to return to his cnvn camp, as he did n;)t 

 wish to tra\-erse the plain towards ex'ening. 



Merely for the purpose ot Ijringing down some game 

 b\' way ot provisi(Mis, 1 set out again about two hours 

 before sunset and succeedetl in gc;tting several Thomson's 

 ga/^elles. I stalked a harteb(,;est buck tor a long dis- 

 tance, which I had wounded, i)Ut could get no chance 

 of killing him. 



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