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as their ration of rice and dates carried them along 

 very well. 



The next excitement was the finding of the 

 lion cubs by Eustace ; he spent two days hunting 

 a lioness in some very heavy cover too heavy 

 to use horsemen. She always kept in a circle 

 ahead of him, and he couldn't get a shot ; at last, 

 puzzled by the way she stuck to the same place, 

 he hunted about and came on the cubs. They 

 were not yet weaned, so we milked one of our 

 goats into a kettle, then one holding a lion, the 

 other put the spout in his mouth, and poured till 

 what had been a scraggy-looking little beast was 

 blown out like a football. This operation was 

 repeated twice a day, and, strange to say, they 

 thrived past belief, and very soon were able to 

 eat meat. We made two cages, and hung them 

 on a camel when we " trekked.'' They accom- 

 panied us the rest of the trip, sailed home on a 

 tramp steamer, by which time they were as big 

 as retrievers, and as none of our respective 

 people were anxious to have them, found their 

 way to the Dublin Zoo, where I believe they 

 still are. They were jolly little beggars, quite 

 affectionate and playful as puppies, with heads 

 and feet quite out of proportion to their bodies. 



The night of their arrival in camp I was rather 

 alarmed, as their mother was still at large, and 

 we knew that if she could scent them out, nothing 



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