MASAI KILLING A HYENA WITH THEIR CLUBS. 



The Capturing of a Lion 



SIMBA Station Lion Station is the name of a place 

 on the Uganda Railway, which connects the. Indian 

 Ocean with the Victoria-Nyanza. It is situated near 

 Nairobi, and the sound of its name recalls vividly to 

 my memory January 25, 1^97, the great day when I 

 came face to face with three lions. 



At that time no iron road led to the interior of the 

 country ; there were neither railway lines nor telegraph 

 wires to vibrate to the sound of the voice of the monarch 

 of the: wilderness. But the white man was soon to bar 

 his path by day and night along the whole length of 

 the great railroad from lake to ocean. 



" Lion Station" deserves its name, tor in the vicinity 

 of this spot over a hundred Indian workmen have been 

 seized by lions. To me this was no surprise, lor years 



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