Vfl.Tl'KKS 1-KKIMNi; ON TIIK UKMAI.NS OF A I.IoN 



More Lioti'Hunting Experiences 



TIIK narrative- just given I have reproduced from the 

 pages of /)('/' ll'cidnianu (T/ic Sportsman] just as 

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

 it in an\' 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 ot 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 Knglish sportsmen with e.\cellent 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. 1'iuler 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 alreadv said, never came mv \\ay again. 



I had a very exciting experience with an old mailed 



lion in the autumn of iSqu. on the ri^ht bank ot the 



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