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An African Shooting Trip 



up the lions. There was a rather respectable 

 little stream of water running through the val- 

 ley, along the sides of which grew some good- 

 sized trees, and the ground beneath them was 

 well covered with jungle growth. The men 

 went carefully to work, but the earth soon 

 proved too hard for tracking, and we tried a 

 drive of the most likely piece of jungle. 



This proved unsuccessful, and, waiting for 

 night, we all three sat out behind live bait, in 

 hopes of a shot. H. K. was the lucky man. 

 The lions came up to his position about mid- 

 night, probably attracted by the far-reaching 

 voice of his bait ; and he succeeded in killing 

 one outright, and in wounding the other. In 

 the morning we tracked up the wounded ani- 

 mal, and obtained our first sight of a wild lion. 

 H. K. secured a good shot, as we all stood 

 together, about fifty feet away from the lion, 

 which was in plain sight, and finished him. 

 Both were full-grown male animals, but with 

 scanty manes. 



Excepting two or three leopards, nothing of 

 importance was added to our bags until about 

 a week later, when we fell in with elephants. 



A. D. S. went off in one direction to follow 

 up an elephant rumor, while H. K. and myself 



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