POSITIONS OF ATTACK 



to change. We came to a Masai kraal, and on 

 inquiring were told that two man-eating lions were 

 doing a lot of damage, and were so cheeky that they 

 were within five hundred yards of where we stood. 

 This was great and exciting news. The Masai — men, 

 women and children — crowded round us, and at once 

 the safari was halted. Two lions so near — think of it ! 

 Our Somalis went off in high spirits with the local 

 men, and in a very short time one of them came 

 galloping back, a sure sign that the brutes had been 

 found not a great distance away. His first words 

 confirmed this. They had them both, Hon and Honess, 

 rounded up waiting for me. I was still very shaky from 

 fever, but I was not going to lose the chance. In a 

 very few minutes everything was ready, and we were 

 off. I rode with Berkeley Cole until we joined the 

 eleven Masai spearmen some one hundred and fifty 

 yards from the lions' lair. I dismounted, and we then 

 went cautiously forward through short thorn scrub 

 towards a big tree under which we were told the lions 

 lay waiting. Having taken up our positions of attack, 

 which was in half moon form, we then went forward, 

 my place being comer man on the left. After 

 advancing about eighty yards I suddenly discovered 

 my little fox-terrier Simba by my side. Halting, I 

 called my camera-bearer Killinjui and left her in his 

 charge to await my return. We then advanced again, 

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