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returned to the scene of action, and with some 

 trepidation climbed up the side on which the lioness 

 had disappeared, where there was more grass than I 

 cared about, besides trees and thorn-bushes. We 

 threw sticks and stones into some of these bushes, 

 and finally went right inside one, where A. thought 

 that the lioness had last been heard, but found no 

 sign of her, and I doubted whether it was the right 

 bush. By this time the light was too bad to be of any 

 use, and searching for a wounded lion in the dark was 

 no game for sane men, so we returned to camp, 

 dinner, and bed. 



January 5th. Returned to the spot in the early 

 morning, and found all the baboons back, and making 

 a great disturbance where we had last heard the 

 lioness. We approached cautiously and found her 

 stone dead under some thin nabbuk, with one 

 baboon sitting in the bush right overhead. We had 

 actually been within 5 yards of her in the evening 

 without seeing her, though she was not in the least 

 concealed. She was the largest of the three that had 

 been said to haunt the Wad Heleu approach road, 

 measuring 8 feet 8 inches, and weighing 257 lb., 

 though much spotted. The bullet had taken her, as I 

 expected, in the point of the left shoulder, and raked 

 her throughout, the lungs being obviously pierced. 

 On the other hand, the -350 had failed to deal a knock- 

 out blow to this large animal, who might have done 



