XXII. 

 THE SECOND LIONESS. 



NOW our luck changed most abruptly. We 

 had been riding since early morning over 

 the wide plains. By and by we came to a wide, 

 shallow, flood-water course carpeted with lava 

 boulders and scant, scattered brush. Two of us 

 took one side of it, and two the other. At this 

 we were just within hailing distance. The boys 

 wandered down the middle. 



Game was here very abundant, and in this 

 broken country proved quite approachable. I 

 saw one Grant's gazelle head, in especial, that 

 greatly tempted me ; but we were hunting lions, 

 and other shooting was out of place. Also the 

 prospects for lions had brightened, for we were 

 continually seeing hyenas hi packs of from three 

 to six. They lay among the stones, but galloped 

 away at our approach. The game paid not the 

 slightest attention to these huge, skulking brutes. 



