WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



who wants too much to eat, and the man who drinks 

 too much. As a rule, you do not discover these 

 characteristics until it is too late to make a change. 



This time, however, I was very fortunate. I fell 

 in with Mr. James L. Clark, of the New York Natural 

 History Museum, who had already been out on one 

 trip in search of specimens, and was anxious to go out 

 again, if he could find a companion. It did not take 

 us long to come to an arrangement. Moreover, he 

 was able to suggest a starting-place. Quite recently, 

 it appeared, he had been at Sultan Hamud, where he 

 had run into a bunch of fourteen lions. 



Fourteen lions ! If there was one thing I desired 

 more than another it was to get moving pictures of 

 lions in their natural state, and the attractions of 

 fourteen of the animals prowling about together were 

 irresistible, at least to a naturalist-photographer. I 

 jumped at the idea at once, and as there seemed no 

 time to be lost, we got a coach put on to a goods train 

 and started that very evening from Nairobi. It was 

 midnight when we reached the point on the railway 

 nearest to where my companion had had his adventure. 

 The train pulled up for us ; we bundled out with our 

 gear and our carriers, and pitched camp not very far 

 from the line. 



There was not much sleep for us that night. As 

 soon as it was light enough to see we were out in 

 search of those lions, praying all the time that they 



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