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VULTURES FEEDING ON THE REMAINS OF A I. ION 



XIX 



More LiotvHunting Experiences 



THE narrative just given I have reproduced from the 

 pages of Dei-' Weidmann (T/ie Sportsman] just as 

 I wrote it at the time. I thought it better not to alter 

 it in any way, as the events were still fresh in my mind 

 when I set to work at it. In the course of the following 

 years other travellers had opportunities of showing similar 

 prowess as sportsmen on the Kikuyu tableland. In one 

 case I was excelled in the number of lions killed in a 

 single day. All these were cases of first-rate Austrian 

 and English sportsmen with excellent weapons at their 

 disposal. Had I possessed similar rifles instead of the 

 obsolete single-barrelled one of unsatisfactory make I could 

 have made a bigger bag. Under such difficult conditions, 

 handicapped by so many unfavourable circumstances, 

 weakened by fever, and with poor weapons, I have reason, 

 I think, to be satisfied with what I did. Such a success, 

 as I have already said, never came my way again. 



I had a very exciting experience with an old maned 

 lion in the autumn of 1899, on the right bank of the 

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