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, I had the lion carried to my boma, which 

 was close at hand. On examination we found no 

 less than six bullet holes in the body, and embedded 

 only a little 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 



