CHART Eee: 
BATTLE BETWEEN LIONS AND HyEeNnas — SHOOTING A LIONESS — POISON— 
ous SNAKES — WE ARRIVE AT THE RIVER WEB THE NATIVES FLEE — 
MARCHING DOWN TO THE JUB — COLLECTING AND SHOOTING — A FIGHT 
AVERTED — WE CROSS THE JUB, ASSISTED BY THE ADONES, OR NEGROES 
— THE Dacopi aBouT THE Rivers JuB AND Dawa — My AFGaAB 
GUIDE RETURNS TO HIS TRIBE -—— THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY OF THE 
Dawa — PHOTOGRAPHS AND PROVISIONS DAMAGED. 
OME of my boys found the half-eaten carcass of a 
lesser kudu in the bushes not far from camp, and 
the fresh tracks of several lions. Although I was a little 
afraid of the natives attacking me at night, I could not 
miss such a chance as. this, but had a zareba built, and a 
donkey tethered in front of it. I had hardly settled myself 
at sunset, with my gun-bearer, Warsama, inside the enclo- 
sure, when three lions appeared suddenly from the bushes 
opposite, and made a rush for my donkey. My heart gave 
a great beat of joyous excitement; but the next instant 
a cold feeling of disappointment spread over me that made 
me almost numb. To my disgust, the donkey had man- 
aged to tear away from his fastening, and had run off, fol- 
lowed by the three ions. I knew there was no use stopping 
longer in the zareba, for the lions would certainly prefer 
the fresh meat of the donkey, and never return to the 
kudu; so I hastily pushed aside the branches with which 
the opening to the zareba had been filled in, and started 
out with Warsama in pursuit of the beasts. To my great 
surprise I saw the three lions scuttling away in the bushes 
