3 1 8 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



into what was left of the deer, and dropping some of 

 the poison in them, I went home and forbade anyone 

 going to the deer which had been shot, for fear he 

 might be poisoned too. We had disturbed these 

 jungles sufficiently, so determined to move camp, 

 but whilst passing the scene of our adventure I 

 found the remains of both the elands had been 

 dragged away, so I followed the trail and came upon 

 a lion, not a very big one dead ! So I had obtained 

 my first African feline by murder. In the meanwhile 

 the guide had followed the other trail. I saw him fix an 

 arrow and shoot ; a lioness bounded upon him. I had 

 just time to take a snap shot, and fortunately hit her 

 in the lower jaw, fracturing it completely ; but though 

 unable to bite, she clawed the man, and would have 

 doubtless injured him severely, had I not run up 

 and put a ball through her head. As I wanted the 

 skins carefully removed, I temporarily halted there. 



We were ready to move again about one, and went 

 on to another pool of water, at the very extremity 

 of the Shimba range. There we pitched camp for 

 the night. Moving as we were, I was unable to peg 

 out the pelts, but I had them well rubbed over with 

 wood ashes and stretched them as well as I could on 

 a framework, and on halting we slung them and all 

 our meat to the topmost leaves of a cocoa-nut tree, 

 the only one in the place, and as it was tapped, we 

 were very glad to avail ourselves of its delicious juice, 

 which is very wholesome, and refreshing, if taken 

 fresh, but very intoxicating if allowed to ferment. 



The night was made hideous by the cries of 

 hyaenas and other prowling beasts, who, smelling 

 meat and not being able to get at it, vented their 



