MY ACQUAINTANCE WITH LIONS — 69 
shot at or molested. There is, of course, the instance 
of the black man killed in the Joma in Somaliland, but 
that event is the exception. 
As a method of killing lions, night baiting is not 
very sportsmanlike, but as a method of photographing 
it is not only legitimate but it has produced by far 
the best lion pictures ever made in Africa—especially 
those of Schilling and A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Rainey 
and Buffalo Jones got some remarkable moving pic- 
tures of hunting lions with dogs, but the total number 
of all pictures of live lions ever taken is still in keeping 
with the small amount of detailed and accurate knowl- 
edge of lions’ habits which we have. To my mind 
the finest lion-hunting picture ever taken was brought 
back by Lady Grace McKenzie. Her operator got a 
moving picture of a wounded lion charging. It 
shows the lion’s rush from the bush at Lady McKenzie 
and her companion—a white man. It shows the 
man turn and run and the lion rush right by Lady 
McKenzie after him. There the picture ends. On 
his recent trip Martin Johnson got a motion picture 
of five lions crossing the plains, one of which was shot 
by Mr. Johnson. 
But neither beating, baiting, nor hounding is the 
really sportsmanlike method of hunting lions—it is 
spearing, and spearing takes a black man. 
One time in Uganda, after I had been under a con- 
siderable strain while elephant hunting, I decided that 
I needed a rest and a change. I set out for the Uasin 
Gishu Plateau where I got together one hundred 
Nandi spearmen. We had no difficulty in getting 
