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even that a race of man-eaters may be developed, for I have known of a 

 particular locality being reputed dangerous from that cause for more than 

 a generation. 



On some parts of the Uganda road straggling porters have for long 

 been preyed upon ; the loss of life from this cause among the Indian 

 coolies employed as navvies on the railway has been so serious that at one 

 point, not far from the Tsavo River, where between twenty and thirty of 

 them had fallen victims to two man-eaters, the work was considerably 

 retarded by the labourers refusing to remain there while their comrades 

 were being carried off night after night in this way, until at last one of the 

 engineers (Mr. J. H. Patterson) succeeded, after much trouble and a narrow 

 escape himself, in shooting both. At another point an engineer was killed 

 by a lion he had attempted to shoot. 



Lions have also been known to enter dwellings, and at least one 

 European has been taken out of his tent and killed. One of my own 

 gun-bearers had lost a brother by a lion, which had forced its way into 

 his hut near the coast, where his home was, and carried him off — a by 

 no means solitary instance. 



I am convinced that any one going to the Protectorates for the purpose 

 of shooting lions would have great success if he went about it in the 

 right way. A good many have been shot already by different travellers 

 or sportsmen while passing through the country, and I know of one case 

 where a Hungarian nobleman (Count D'Harnoncourt) killed six lions out 

 of a group that he encountered at one spot in little more than as many 

 minutes — some of them very handsome skins. a tr at 



J A. ti. lNEUMANN. 



In Tunisia 



Down to the time of the French invasion of Tunis, in 1881, lions were 

 still found in the extreme north-western part of the Regency, close to the 



