x DEATH OF THE SECOND MAN-EATER = 97 
the morning, and accordingly set out as soon as 
it was light. For over a mile there was no 
difficulty in following the blood-trail, and as he 
had rested several times I felt sure that he had 
been badly wounded. In the end, however, my 
hunt proved fruitless, for after a time the traces 
of blood ceased and the surface of the ground 
became rocky, so that I was no longer able to 
follow the spoor. 
About this time Sir Guilford Molesworth, 
K.C.I.E., late Consulting Engineer to the Govern- 
ment of India for State Railways, passed through 
Tsavo on a tour of inspection on behalf of the Foreign 
Office. After examining the bridge and_ other 
works and expressing his satisfaction, he took a 
number of photographs, one or two of which he 
has kindly allowed me to reproduce in this book. 
He thoroughly sympathised with us in all the trials 
we had endured from the man-eaters, and was 
delighted that one at least was dead. When he 
asked me if I expected to get the second lion soon, 
I well remember his half-doubting smile as | rather 
too confidently asserted that I hoped to bag him 
also in the course of a few days. 
As it happened, there was no sign of our enemy 
for about ten days after this, and we began to hope 
that he had died of his wounds in the bush. All 
the same we still took every precaution at night, 
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