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mauled him that the lion succumbed to its wounds. 

 And it was only after months of suffering that 

 Williams finally recovered from the mauling. 



We felt that if Frederick Selous, the world's 

 greatest big game hunter, could not find the lion, 

 then our chances were somewhat slim. 



There had been few parties in this district since 

 McMillan's party left. Captain Ashton came in 



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two months before us, and we met him on his way 

 out. With him was Captain Black, a professional 

 elephant hunter, who, three years before, on the 

 Aberdare, had had a bad experience with an ele- 

 phant. It was a cow that he had wounded but failed 

 to kill. She charged him and knocked him down in 

 a pile of very thick and matted brush. Three times 

 she trampled him under her feet, but the bushes 

 served as a kind of mattress and the captain es- 



