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The lion had now been taken in eight different 

 positionsT-full-length, carte-de-visite, cabinet, 

 and as a group — but showed no signs of having 

 had enough, and was lashing its tail with a loud 

 rumbling sound which caused the photographer 

 a good deal of uneasiness. 



" That will be all to-day, thank you !" he 

 managed to stammer out, as he made a bee- 

 line for the dark-room which the Abyssinian 

 porters had long since abandoned. But still 

 the unsatisfied creature advanced upon him, 

 licking its lips in an unpleasantly suggestive 

 fashion. 



To make a long story short, my poor friend 

 was finally devoured by his sitter; his plates 

 were seized and destroyed, and Science was 

 left to lament the loss of one of the most 

 promising amateur photographers that this 

 country has ever seen. The moral of this tale 

 is self-evident. 



8. 



On the question of dress and equipment suit- 

 able to the jungle or the desert many volumes 

 might easily be compiled. It will serve the 

 present writer's purpose to enumerate a few of 

 those essential articles without which no sports- 

 man's outfit can be regarded as complete. 



It is at any time a great mistake to overdress 



