LION HUNTING ON THE KAPITI PLAINS 



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the boys called, "simba" (lion), and pointed with his fin- 

 ger. It was just across the little ravine, there about four 

 yards wide and as many feet deep; and I shifted my posi- 



Noon at Ugami. Sir Alfred Pease bending over behind Mr. Roosevelt 

 From a photograph by Kerinit Roosevelt 



tion, peering eagerly into the bushes for some moments 

 before I caught a glimpse of tawny hide; as it moved, there 

 was a call to me to " shoot/' for at that distance, if the lion 



