Lions 
I am convinced that Weddell had seen such a 
thing. He also told me that at the same time 
as he saw this happen he was walking about 
one day looking for buffalo. In an opening or 
glade he suddenly came unexpectedly on thir- 
teen lions and lionesses all together. I asked him 
what he did, and he said, “ I gave ’em best, and 
got out of it as soon as I could without shooting 
at them.” 
Now, of all animals the lion was the beast I 
wanted more than any other to bag. It is, after 
all, a matter of chance whether you come upon 
them. For you may be in a district that fairly 
swarms with them, and not have the luck to 
even see one, let alone get a shot. On the 
other hand, you may go out and get two or three 
in one day, as happened to a man who tended 
the bar at the hotel at Fontesvilla. He shot 
three on one occasion with one bullet each, and 
hit them all in the head, killing them instantly. 
After inspecting the lion tree I told Weddell 
that I had never heard of such a thing before. 
Moreover, I thought that any man who had 
been in the habit of hunting lions would laugh 
the idea to scorn. 
He said, ‘“‘ Yes, that may be so, but seeing is 
believing.” 
We now proceeded up a glade, or flat marsh, 
bordered on one side with heavy reeds, and 
on the other by bush and timber. We had 
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