A FIGHT WITH FIVE LIONS 301 



"It was then that I learned how father 

 chanced to appear on the scene at the critical 

 moment. My brother, on leaving me, instead 

 of going directly home, had stopped at the edge 

 of the rocks to rest. He had seen one of the 

 lions come out of the cliff and had hurried 

 home to give the alarm. 



"We skinned the two lions that night and 

 found the third one dead in the thicket the fol- 

 lowing morning. Although we watched at the 

 bullock carcasses that afternoon and the next 

 morning, hoping that the lioness that we had 

 seen escape, as well as the fifth one, which, dur- 

 ing the thick of the fight, I had lost sight of 

 and which probably went back into the rocks, 

 might return to the body, but they disappointed 

 us. We were, however, quite satisfied with three 

 out of the five." 



