A LION-DRIVE 



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which hour hunters are generally too fast asleep to hear 

 it. The only occasions when I have heard a real roar 

 were when waiting-out at night over a kill. On these 

 ventures one has to spend the long, dark hours on a 

 cartel, or framework, fixed up in the branches of a tree ; 

 and, under such conditions, is never so sound asleep but 

 that the magnificent reverberatinsj roar of a lion w^ill 

 speedily restore one to full consciousness. 



The herdsman-prophet of Tekoa understood the 



FIRST GLIMPSE OF A LION. 



habits of lions in this respect thousands of years ago, 

 when he wrote (Amos iii. 4) : — " Will a lion roar in the 

 forest, when he hath no prey ? will a young lion cry 

 out of his den, if he have taken nothiuo- ? " 



Well, on August 7, 1904, we were encamped along- 

 side the railway at Nakuru, intending to start at dawn 

 next mornino- on the long; march to Lake Barino'o, 

 distant some seventy-five miles due north. A message, 

 how^ever, was conveved to us durino- the eveninsj that 

 H.M.'s Commissioner (the late Sir Donald Stewart) was 

 expected by train during the night, and it was proposed 

 to oro-anise a lion-drive on the morrow. We had with 



