THE LIONS OF TANGANYIKA 87 



always went about our work with this saying in mind, 

 for it would, of course, be courting sudden death to 

 throw every precaution to the winds and beheve that 

 all lions were friendly and that their friendsliip could 

 be depended upon. 



After our first few days with them we became con- 

 vinced that it would be possible to win their confidence 

 and by so doing obtain motion pictures that would 

 be hard for anyone else ever to surpass. With this 

 idea in mind we fed them every day or so. Our method 

 was to take the meat to that part of the donga where 

 we knew they hved and so place it that the smell 

 would be wafted to them. Later, as we became better 

 acquainted, they would come out at the approach of 

 the truck and meet us half way. 



If we desired that they perform somewhere else we 

 would drag the meat away with the truck, and they 

 would follow behind until the spot selected was reached. 

 Then it was a matter of man's wit against theirs if 

 anything worth while was to be filmed. To them the 

 all important thing was the meat and Mike Cottar, 

 who knows the ways of the Hon, was able to arrange 

 things so that to get the meat they would have to do 

 certain feats and then we would get our pictures. Why, 

 we even had them cHmbing trees! 



People who have never seen a wild Hon will scoff at 

 such a thing and say it is impossible, but I have aU the 

 evidence in the world, both in motion pictures and in 

 regular photographs. We had a lot of fun with our 

 boys, for these Negroes depend on cHmbing trees to 

 escape hons. When they saw one after another of 

 our troop jumping into and chmbing a tree, they 

 shuddered to think of what might have happened 



