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dered about for several hours but finally saw our 

 camp-fires, and came over to stay until morn- 

 ing. They did not know at the time whether 

 the lion had killed any one, and as we broke 

 camp and left about four o'clock that morning, 

 we never heard. Just before daylight we heard 

 the hoarse, guttural grunts of a lion back in the 

 hills a half mile from camp, so we supposed that 

 it must have been successful. 



After a man-eater becomes known, the govern- 

 ment usually closes the roads in that section to 

 travellers and forbids the natives to visit the 

 region until the animal has been put to death. 

 Frequently there is a white hunter in the vicin- 

 ity who is glad of the chance to kill the brute, 

 and it is needless to say that the natives give 

 the hunter all the information and assistance 

 they can, for the death of a man-eater is received 

 by the blacks with much joy and celebration. 

 Very often the game warden at Nairobi is called 

 upon to exterminate a man-eater. 



With a party of natives he goes to the scene 

 of the last tragedy, and if possible they track the 

 brute to a clump of bushes or tall grass to which 

 it has gone after its gruesome meal. The patch 

 is half surrounded by the blacks, who march 



