CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG GAME 63 



The lion caught his claws in the hide of "Sport's" back, and 

 Wells held his rifle on the lion, ready to kill, but he finally re- 

 leased the dog and "Sport" passed on. I had a slow lens on the 

 camera and could not get a snap of this, and doubt if the 

 negative would have been good, as the place was quite shady. 

 My time pictures here were under-exposed. 



Our next lion was a cub which " Hector " and " Ajax" killed 

 when it fell from the tree in which we found it. Going home 

 the same night, Wells killed a female lion, and two days later 

 we found the trail of a big one and soon had him treed. He 

 was in a bad tree, so Wells drove him out and he treed again 

 about a hundred yards away. Here he was in no better place, 

 so we drove him again. He ran down across a gulch, and just 

 before he reached a tree on the other side "Hector" caught 

 him, and they tumbled back into the gulch. "Ajax" and 

 "Talk" and "Nixey " fell to, and there was a hard fight for a 

 few moments. Wells, fearing that so few dogs might get the 

 worst of the fray, ran down the hill and up the gulch, while I 

 was hurrying as fast as possible; carrying the camera, ready for 

 exposures ; but I could not get there in time, as Wells shot the 

 lion when he was close enough. The lion had charged him 

 at twenty feet. He said the lion's eyes were green and his 

 ears were laid back, his fangs and claws showing, and, altogether, 

 he was not a pretty sight, and as he spoke I noticed that his 

 hands were shaking. 



The next lion we found was a very wild female. Every time 

 we approached to within forty or fifty yards of the tree she was 



