CHAPTER V. 



LIONS. 



WE had been camped high up on the Pongolo river for 

 some weeks, but the game having shifted their quarters in 

 consequence of being so much disturbed, I determined to 

 move lower down and follow it. So one morning, all our 

 moveables being safely secured on the heads of the long 

 line of carriers who performed the duties of beasts of 

 burden in that tsetse-infected country, and all the 

 available hunters being ordered out on the flank to look 

 for meat, after being told that they would find us at 

 nightfall somewhere on the river-bank, I started in front, 

 accompanied by a couple of servants, to find a suitable 

 place for a new camp. The requisites for this were 



