Zebra Killed by Lions 141 



to my hand at the noise of the gallop. Following the 

 herd, I killed a male also, making a total of three. 

 None of them had a tuft of hair on the forehead. 1 



I killed antelopes in August and September- 

 elands, koodoos, waterbucks, sable antelopes, reed- 

 bucks, bushbucks, etc. I pass rapidly over these 

 days of sport, which I have already described, to 

 speak of my first night-watch of the season in the 

 middle of September. 



I had seen lions' spoor on the shores of a pool in 

 a large plain. This did not trouble me. But when 

 returning the same way a little before sunset we saw 

 something which, upon drawing near, we recognised 

 to be the body of a zebra, which had been dead barely 

 an hour. It must have been killed by a lion or 

 rather by several lions, because of the many 

 wounds on its body. It was lying in the middle of 

 a red pool ; its face was one large wound ; and from 

 one of its empty sockets, from its open throat and 

 swollen breast, blood, with which it was spattered 

 all over, was pouring copiously. The fight must have 

 been a terrible one ! 



We immediately inspect the neighbourhood, con- 

 vinced that the lions have decamped upon our ap- 

 proach ; but we notice nothing more than a few 

 small insignificant bushes. I decide to try my luck 

 that night, and, as the camp is barely a mile and a half 



1 I preserved the finest of these three elands ; but it deteriorated, 

 and I was unable to send it to Paris. Through one cause or another, 

 we lost more than thirty magnificent specimens in the course of 

 1895-96. 



