204 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP. 
absolutely motionless; and I cannot speak too 
highly of Mahina for the splendid way in which he 
stood the charge. Had he acted as did another 
gun-boy I know of, the affair might not have had so 
happy an ending. This gun-boy went out with 
Captain G—-— in this very neighbourhood, and not 
long after our adventure. G—— came across a 
lion just as we did, and wounded it. It charged 
down on them, but instead of remaining absolutely 
still, the terrified gun-boy fled, with the result that 
the lion came furiously on, and poor G—— met 
with a terrible death. 
While Mahina was scouring the neighbourhood 
in search of some natives to carry the skin back 
to camp, | took a good look round the place and 
found the half-eaten body of a zebra, which I 
noticed had been killed out in the open and then 
dragged into the long grass. The tracks told me, 
also, that all the work had been done by the lion, 
and this set me thinking of the lioness. I accord- 
ingly swept the plain with my glasses in the direc- 
tion in which she had bounded off, and after some 
searching I discovered her about a mile away, 
apparently lying down in the midst of a herd of 
hartebeeste, who grazed away without taking any 
notice of her. I felt much inclined to follow her up, 
but I was afraid that if I did so the vultures that 
were already hovering around would settle on my 
