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of a little ravine, but before it was assembled ready 
for the operation a lioness came up within ten feet 
of the camera, turned to the left, and then ran back 
by the same route. The boys waved to me to come 
down twenty-five yards. There, from a little knoll, 
we got the first movie record of lion spearing. A young, 
full-grown lion was at bay in tall grass at the bottom of 
the ravine. The camera trained on the place caught 
the first spear thrown. The first one was followed 
by a shower of spears, and a few seconds later the boys 
rushed in and got their spears. It was all over quicker 
than it takes to tell it. In the film not only do the 
falling spears show but also the movement of the 
lion in the grass, but the cover and a dark day made 
any part of the film impossible to use as a still picture. 
Hardly had I finished turning the handle on this scene 
when I was called off twenty-five yards to another 
lion at bay. He was held for the camera and a similar 
record of thisone wasmade. In the meantime, a lone 
spearman making desperate effort to get into the 
show stumbled on an old lioness. They fought it 
out, man and beast together. When we discovered 
him he was on his back protecting himself with his 
shield, a single bite in his leg and the lioness dying 
beside him. He had killed a lioness practically alone, 
which entitled him to wear a lion’s skin headdress. 
On this trip of twenty days we had three occasions 
in which the spearmen rounded up five lions in a 
bunch and each time they got three of the five. Al- 
together, we got ten lions and five leopards. One 
boy was mauled by a leopard, another was bitten 
