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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 I 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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