ADVENTURES WITH LIONS AND A RHINO 



train flings them open. On this occasion the lion 

 must have fidgeted the door about, and not being 

 quite caught it would easily slide back to admit 

 him into the carriage, and then, owing to his extra 

 weight on one side of the carriage, would slide back 

 quickly into place again. 



He sprang at the superintendent lying asleep, 

 standing with his hind legs on the Italian, who was 

 asleep also on the floor. The man in the top berth 

 was awakened by the commotion, and looking down, 

 saw to his horror the whole carriage filled up by 

 the man-eater's body. He sprang down on to the 

 lion, and out by the second sliding door opposite to- 

 that by which the lion had entered ; for he was 

 scared to death, as who would not have been, and 

 could do nothing to help his friends. Meanwhile 

 the lion had seized his victim and jumped out of 

 the window, crashing through and breaking the 

 woodwork, and then made off", dragging the English- 

 man with him. 



The Italian then jumped up and scrambled out 

 of the opposite window to run to shelter, thankful 

 to find himself still alive and unhurt. 



The remains, that is to say what the lion had 

 left, of the poor superintendent were taken to Nai- 

 robi and there buried. It was sad to see at the 

 time I was in Nairobi what a number of the few 

 men already buried in the little cemetery on the 

 plain had been killed by lions. This lion not so 



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