102 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP. 
by the sound of the firing, had arrived on the scene, 
and so great was their resentment against the brute 
who had _ killed such numbers of their comrades that 
it was only with the greatest difficulty that I could 
restrain them from tearing the dead body to pieces. 
Eventually, amid the wild rejoicings of the natives 
— 
**“HE MEASURED NINE FEET SIX INCHES FROM TIP OF NOSE TO TIP 
OF TAIL, AND STOOD THREE FEET ELEVEN AND A HALF INCHES HIGH.” 
and coolies, | had the lion carried to my éoma, which 
was close at hand. On examination we found no 
less than six bullet holes in the body, and embedded 
only alittle way in the flesh of the back was the slug 
which I had fired into him from the scaffolding about 
ten days previously. He measured nine feet six 
inches from tip of nose to tip of tail, and stood 
