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THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 7, 1896. 



CHAPTER XIV 



RECORD DAYS WITH LIONS 



Meeting a troop of lions Fruitless pursuit The forgotten stick Death of 



the big male Fatal shots. 

 Nocturnal roaring Off to encounter wild beasts Face to face A wounded 



lion The shot at the neck Photographing and skinning An alarm 



Lionesses Death of one of them Search for and discovery of the 



first lion Three lions in one morning. 

 Third episode A mother's death The cubs Conclusion. 



THE two adventures with lions which I shall here 

 relate happened at different dates ; but I group 

 them together, as constituting the finest incidents, 

 after those which I have narrated in the preceding 

 chapters, in my hunting reminiscences. In every 

 way they are a worthy pendant to those which precede. 

 As these two encounters occurred in the daytime, 



