THE LION ~ 94s 
could find no signs of dislocation. When I shot the lion he 
disgorged in his dying struggles large pieces of buffalo skin, 
pieces of liver, entrails, and clots of blood, and his stomach was 
blown out to almost bursting point with a further accumulation 
of entrails, liver, blood, and pieces of flesh and skin, besides 
a piece of heart so large that it is a wonder that he managed 
to get it down. ‘The zebra that I found about two hours after 
it had been killed by a lion and lioness, which latter I shot 
after a long hunt, had absolutely no marks on it to show how 
it had been killed. One ear had been bitten off, and its hind- 
Quarters and hocks were torn and lacerated as if gashed by a 
. knife, the cuts being so clean, but there were no marks on the 
throat or back of the neck. With the exception of a small 
piece of entrail lying on the ground, which had the appearance 
of having been chewed, the whole of the inside and the soft flesh 
and skin of the stomach were gone; the rest was untouched. 
_ In the extensive game countries of Masailand and 
Turkwel, a district in the Suk country, lions are very plentiful, 
and may be heard at night ; but though undoubtedly numerous 
it is quite by chance that they are met with. The greatest 
number seen at one time by myself and Dr. Mackinnon was 
- twenty-three. This troop was seen near Machako’s, in 
Ukambani, on August 7,1890. It consisted of three lions with 
splendid dark manes, five or six lionesses and the rest cubs 
from three parts grown down to the size of a fox terrier. 
Another large troop of eleven was seen near Rombo, to the 
east of Kilimanjaro, by Mr. T. W. H. Greenfield in 1888. 
Perhaps the best guides to the whereabouts of a lion are 
vultures. Should these birds be seen soaring high up in the 
air, gradually getting lower and lower, and finally going off in 
___ a bee line, the sportsman should certainly follow them, as it is 
a sure sign that they have detected the carcase of a dead beast. 
If, however, as he proceeds in the direction they have taken, 
_ sees the vultures, marabou storks, &c., sitting in trees, or circling 
round a few hundred feet up in the air, in the event of there 
being no trees, it is a pretty certain sign that a beast of prey is 
