GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



having been seen. One morning our boys came 

 to us, and said there were lion " pugs " in our 

 garden ; it must have walked through during the 

 night. 



Another day we heard of a sentry on duty see- 

 ing the lioness, which quietly sat near him, while 

 he stood and shook in his '* chuplies," not daring 

 to move. The next night or two an officer sat up 

 in the sentry-box, with a goat as a bait for the lion- 

 ess, but he had no luck. Apparently it was a tame 

 lioness, who found it difficult to chase food on the 

 plain. 



It kept the people in a frightened state for 

 weeks, and then disappeared and was no more seen. 

 I asked some people to dinner one night, including 

 a girl, who replied that she could not come into my 

 *' lion infested neighbourhood " unless some man 

 who was dining with me could escort her. Finally 

 she came, driven by a doctor she knew always 

 carried a revolver. 



A number of Masai passed my bungalow one 

 morning, on the way to be enlisted as levies for the 

 Nandi show ; they looked fine as they passed in 

 single file with spears and shields, and lions' manes 

 on their heads, or else their feather head-dresses. 

 One or two looked very comic carrying an umbrella 

 as well. 



Presently several returned with one on a 

 stretcher, and Baruku told me his friend had got 



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