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for me to get liim. It is a nuisance, as they all 

 say lie has killed a lot of people lately. The 

 ones I killed were his family party, but were not 

 with him when he killed the Mid g an woman, for 

 that was the night they killed a woman at Fanat. 

 By-the-bye, those lionesses measure 7 ft. 8 in. 

 and 8 ft. 2 in. Heavy showers all the afternoon, 

 and it looks like a wet night. 



6th March, Tuesday. — Could find no traces of 

 big lion this morning. He must have gone off 

 some way before the heavy showers of yesterday 

 afternoon. Went towards Dubino to see if he had 

 gone there ; no tracks. Looked up my dead 

 lionesses — found the cubs had dragged off the 

 fat one and eaten of it. A heavy storm of rain 

 just before I got there spoilt the tracking, and I 

 could not make out where they had gone. Missed 

 a gerenouk, twelve yards, trotting, 500 ex-bullet, 

 went low. 



7th March, Wednesday. — Went out looking 

 for tracks. Took a long round, as far as Derio, 

 and could find none. The ground is very hard 

 after the rain, and it was easy to pass tracks 

 without seeing them. Had a shot at a gerenouk 

 at 100 yards after a very patient stalk. I was 



