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railway-line near the station ; and there we 

 tied it to the railing of the verandah. In 

 the morning the hartebeest had vanished, and 

 examination showed that the lioness and her cub, 

 and also hyaenas, had visited the kill. The 

 lion apparently hunts a great deal by scent. 

 The tiger, being a forest animal, trusts almost 

 entirely to sight and hearing. 



On the next day Judd shot another hartebeest, 

 and we repeated the experiment, and Judd and 

 I sat on chairs in the house in front of a wooden- 

 barred window. The night was so dark that 

 we were obliged to tie the carcase to the verandah, 

 so that it was not more than five yards from us ; 

 and the window, through which we had to shoot, 

 was higher than our chairs. When moving our 

 rifles, therefore, it was almost impossible to 

 help touching with them the bars of the window, 

 and, when sitting up over a kill, any noise of this 

 kind is fatal. I have an extended experience 

 of mosquitoes, but shall always remember the 

 mosquitoes of Simba with respect. We were 

 not far, however, from being successful. Some 

 hyaenas came first to the kill ; and then, fairly 

 early in the night, we heard the lioness announce 

 her arrival with a growl, and the hyaenas 

 scampered away in terror. The lioness, however, 

 evidently detected our presence and would not 

 approach the carcase, and we sat there until 

 the dawn without result. 



On the following night, at the suggestion of 

 the pointsman, who posed with some reason as 

 an authority in the matter of lions, I sat up 

 under the water-tank of the station, with a goat 



