LION 



FELIS LEO 

 SWAHILI : SIMBA. MASAI : OL-NGATUNY. OL-OWARU-KITOK 



IT would be absurd on my part to go in 

 for a lengthy description of this enormous 

 cat. Everybody knows all about it from 

 their nursery days. 



It is, I fancy, more or less of a fallacy to 

 suppose that there are different species in Africa, 

 as on any one having shot one, a rider is always 

 added to the story of his death : "A splendid 

 black mane," or " No mane worth talking about." 

 A good mane is a matter of luck. 



I have only been in at the death of one lion in 

 British East Africa. We came upon him near 

 Lake Hannington quite unexpectedly ; my friend 

 stopped him with a split Mauser in the neck, 

 and I raked him with a "400 down through the 

 chest. 



In Somaliland I had great sport one morning, 

 which is worth describing, as the methods were 

 peculiar to that part of the world and to the 

 chief who ran the show. I think any one who 

 has been in the locality must have known and 



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