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firing at a retreating lion, but Lee called out in succession five or six times, ' Look! 

 look ! ' at the same time pointing with his finger in different directions in front. I 

 saw, to my astonishment, and rather to my dismay, that the glade appeared to be 

 alive with lions. There they were, trooping and trotting along ahead of us like a 

 lot of enormous dogs great yellow objects, offering such a sight as I had never 

 dreamed of. Lee turned to me and said, ' What will you do ? ' I said, ' I suppose 

 we must go after them,' thinking all the time that I was making a very foolish 



THE MANELESS LION FROM SENEGAL. 

 (One-fourteenth natural size.) 



answer. This I am the more convinced of now, for Lee told me afterwards that 

 many old hunters in South Africa will turn away from such a troop of lions as we had 

 before us. We trotted on after them a short distance to where the grass was more 

 open, the lions trotting along ahead of us in the most composed and leisurely 

 fashion, very different from the galloping off of a surprised and startled antelope." 

 Lord Randolph Churchill himself counted no less than seven lions, while his hunter 

 believed that there were several more in the party. 



