WILD MAN AND WILD BEAST IN AFRICA 31 



Photo by Kermit Roosevelt. Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons 

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wrist and trusted to the weight of the 

 spear to go in. 



As the lion came forward the spear 

 struck him on the left shoulder, and 

 came out diagonally through him in 

 front of his right hip. The lion reared 

 like a rearing horse and bore the shield 



down, burying his teeth and claws in 

 the man. At the same moment another 

 man leaped in on one side and threw his 

 spear ; the spear-head glimmered like 

 white fire in the sunlight, and, entering 

 transversely, came out through the lion 

 on the hither side. The lion turned on 



