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Our remaining days together were comparatively 
uneventful. A grass fire, fortunately not one of the 
most persistent, came down upon our camp that 
night and all hands fell to and fought it. Lions roared 
about our camp all night, too. At daybreak the 
Colonel and I went out in our pyjamas, hoping to find 
them. We saw no lions, but on our return, as we ap- 
proached the carcass of one of our elephants, a hyena 
stuck his head up on the other side. The Colonel fired 
but the shot was unnecessary. The hyena was trapped. 
In his greediness, he had rammed his head through 
a wall of muscle in the elephant’s stomach and could 
not get it out. The hair was worn thin on his neck 
by his efforts to escape, but he was literally tied up 
in the thing he loved best. 
A day or two later Roosevelt went on to Uganda 
and down the Nile. 
