22 AFRICAN ADVENTURE STORIES 



through, shouting, thrashing the brush with 

 clubs, and throwing stones in advance. If the 

 lion is in the cover it is forced out at the other 

 end and killed by the waiting game warden. It 

 is a well-known fact that the very same party 

 of men whom a man-eater may have raided the 

 night before can in daylight drive it before 

 them like any ordinary lion. 



This form of lion-hunting was the most suc- 

 cessful one employed in Africa prior to Mr. Paul 

 Rainey's original method of hunting them with 

 dogs. In two or three months he killed sixty- 

 three lions, and his discovery will be the means of 

 ridding the country of man-eaters much sooner 

 than has heretofore been possible, and conse- 

 quently it is bound to cut down the death-rate 

 of natives. 



Although we had several dogs on the Sotik 

 trip, they were continually running ahead and 

 scaring the animals, which deprived us of the 

 pleasure of watching them and studying their 

 habits, so the colonel ordered the dogs sent back. 

 Cuninghame at first remonstrated, arguing that 

 "the time might come when they could help us 

 out of a nasty mess," but our chief replied that 

 whatever mess we "got into" we would have to 



