FROM ADEN TO MOMBASi^ 4f 



and hard pursuit, or, most of all, a lioness in defense of her cubs, is 

 definitely committed to the charge; death is the only possible con- 

 clusion. Broken limbs, broken jaws, a body raked from end to end, 

 lungs pierced through and through, entrails torn and protruding — 

 none of these count. It must be death — instant and utter — for the 

 lion, or down goes the man, mauled by septic claws and fetid teeth, 

 crushed and crunched, and poisoned afterward to make doubly 

 sure. Such are the habits of this cowardly and wicked animal. 



It is the stage when the lion has been determinedly "bayed" 

 that the sportsman from London or New York is usually introduced 

 upon the scene. He has, we may imagine, followed the riders as 

 fast as the inequalities of the ground, his own want of training and 

 the burden of a heavy rifle will allow him. 



He arrives at the spot where the lion is cornered in much the 

 same manner as the matador enters the arena, the others standimg 

 aside deferentially, ready to aid or divert the lion. 



LION SWIFTER THAN A RACEHORSE. 



If his bullet kills he is, no doubt, justly proud. If it only 

 wounds, the lion charges the nearest horseman. For lOo yards the 

 charge of a lion is swifter than the gallop of a racehorse. The 

 riders, therefore, usually avoid waiting within that distance. But 

 sometimes they do not ; or sometimes the lion sees the man who has 

 shot him, or sometimes all sorts of things happen which make good 

 stories — afterward. 



After establishing camp Col. Roosevelt and his party made 

 several short expeditions into the jungle to get the ex-President's 

 hand in, so to speak. On these trips several of the smaller animals 

 of the wilderness were captured. It was not, however, until early 

 in May that any lions were captured. During this time the ex-Presi- 

 dent got down to hunting in dead earnest and the usual Rooseveltian 

 luck attended him. During his first days' hunt for the King of 

 Beasts he killed three lions. This gave Col. Roosevelt the record 

 for lion hunting in that part of Africa. 



In view of the former President's advent in Africa the dangers 

 of the "sleeping sickness," prevalent in that far-ofif country, has 



