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For nearly three hours, as he said, I talked inco- 

 herently, and then my brain cleared and I was all 

 right again. Thinking I had been to sleep, I 

 called for tea and said that I was going to the place 

 where I had shot the lion. When he informed me 

 that I had not been well I asked what had been 

 the matter. An attack of amnesia had been 

 induced by the exertion and the excitement. 



I continued shooting, and, so far as I was able 

 to see, there were no after-effects of any kind, 

 though for the rest of the t6ur I purposely refrained 

 from exerting myself quite as strenuously as I had 

 done up to this time. If Colonel Gimlette had not 

 been with me, I should not have known that I 

 had had a temporary loss of memory. 



In the morning I went back to the spot, paced 

 the distances, and verified my impressions. Saa- 

 sita skinned the lions very well, and on the 

 following morning he and Abdu proceeded to peg 

 out the skins in the sun. I objected to this, as 

 a tiger-skin, when pegged out in the sun in India, 

 will inevitably go bad ; but Abdu insisted that it 

 was the right thing to do for one day, and, as I had 

 great faith in his intelligence, I withdrew my 

 objection. He was perfectly right, and both the 

 skins arrived in England in very good order. 

 The sun in Africa has not apparently the same 

 power as the sun in India. 



We came across lions on one other occasion. 

 We had crossed the Tana, and were traversing the 

 country near Juja farm, when Gimlette met a 

 Boer farmer, who said that he was suffering much 

 from malarial fever. Gimlette gave him some 

 quinine, for which he was very grateful, saying 



