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Moreover, the experience of Mr. Paul Rainey, who, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Heller, took to Africa a pack of American 

 bearhounds and fighting dogs, and by their aid killed about 

 sixty lions, shows that with thoroughly trained dogs of the 

 right temper lions and leopards can be pursued by good 

 hunters with the minimum of risk and almost the certainty 

 of success. But the man who on foot or on horseback, with- 

 out dogs, follows lion hunting as a steady pursuit will not 

 kill many of them without being viciously and resolutely 

 charged, and if he persists long enough his life will be put 

 in jeopardy. During the last twenty years scores of white 

 hunters have been killed by lions, elephants, buffaloes, and 

 rhinos in East and Middle Africa; and the lions have killed 

 much more than half of the total number. Except Mr. 

 Rainey, who worked with dogs. Lord Delamere has killed 

 more lions than any other man we know — fifty- three; he 

 was badly mauled on one occasion, and has now given up 

 hunting them, stating that no man can count on killing more 

 than fifty lions without himself being killed or fatally in- 

 jured. Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit killed only seventeen 

 lions between them, two being cubs and two not much 

 more than half-grown; and thirteen full-grown lions are too 

 few to permit of free generalization as to their fighting 

 capacity. Three of these thirteen lions — two big-maned 

 males and a lioness — charged with the utmost resolution, 

 from a distance of nearly two hundred yards when wounded 

 and brought to bay by the pursuing horsemen; three others 

 (all male lions) were at bay and were about to charge — one 

 had begun to trot forward — when killed ; five were killed or 

 disabled under circumstances that gave them no opportu- 

 nity to charge ; two (both lionesses) were killed close up, after 



