U KILLING A HYENA WITH THEIR CLUBS. 



XI 



The Capturing of a Lion 



SI MBA Station — Lion Station — is the name of a place 

 on the Uganda Railway, which connects the Indian 

 Ocean with the Victoria-Nyanza. It is situated near 

 Nairobi, and the sound of its name recalls vividly to 

 my memory January 25, 1897, the great day when I 

 came face to face with three lions. 



At that time no iron road led to the interior of the 

 country ; there were neither railway lines nor telegraph 

 wires to vibrate to the sound of the voice of the monarch 

 of the wilderness. But the white man was soon to bar 

 his path by day and night along the whole length of 

 the great railroad from lake to ocean. 



" Lion Station" deserves its name, for in the vicinity 

 of this spot over a hundred Indian workmen have been 

 seized by lions. To me this was no surprise, for years 



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