CHAPTE RIX 
THE DEATH OF THE SECOND MAN-EATER 
Ir must not be imagined that with the death of 
this lion our troubles at Tsavo were at an end; his 
companion was still at large, and very soon began 
to make us unpleasantly aware of the fact. Only a 
few nights elapsed before he made an attempt to 
get at the Permanent Way Inspector, climbing up 
the steps of his bungalow and prowling round the 
verandah. The Inspector, hearing the noise and 
thinking it was a drunken coolie, shouted angrily 
“Go away!” but, fortunately for him, did not 
attempt to come out or to open the door. Thus 
disappointed in his attempt to obtain a meal of 
human flesh, the lion seized a couple of the In- 
spector’s goats and devoured them there and then. 
On hearing of this occurrence, I determined to 
sit up the next night near the Inspector’s bungalow. 
Fortunately there was a vacant iron shanty close at 
hand, with a convenient loophole in it for firing 
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