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and hard pursuit, or, most of all, a lioness in defense of her cubs, is 
definitely committed to the charge; death is the only possible con¬ 
clusion. Broken limbs, broken jaws, a body raked from end to end, 
lungs pierced through and through, entrails torn and protruding— 
none of these count. It must be death—instant and utter—for the 
lion, or down goes the man, mauled by septic claws and fetid teeth, 
crushed and crunched, and poisoned afterward to make doubly 
sure. Such are the habits of this cowardly and wicked animal. 
It is the stage when the lion has been determinedly ''bayed’’ 
that the sportsman from London or New York is usually introduced 
upon the scene. He has, we may imagine, followed the riders as 
fast as the inequalities of the ground, his own want of training and 
the burden of a heavy rifle will allow him. 
He arrives at the spot where the lion is cornered in much the 
same manner as the matador enters the arena, the others standing 
aside deferentially, ready to aid or divert the lion. 
LION SWIFTER THAN A RACEHORSE. 
If his bullet kills he is, no doubt, justly proud. If it only 
wounds, the lion charges the nearest horseman. For lOO yards the 
charge of a lion is swifter than the gallop of a racehorse. The 
riders, therefore, usually avoid waiting within that distance. But 
sometimes they do not; or sometimes the lion sees the man who has 
shot him, or sometimes all sorts of things happen which make good 
stories-—afterward. 
After establishing camp Col. Roosevelt and his party made 
several short expeditions into the jungle to get the ex-President’s 
hand in, so to speak. On these trips several of the smaller animals 
of the wilderness were captured. It was not, however, until early 
in May that any lions were captured. During this time the ex-Presi- 
deiit got down to hunting in dead earnest and the usual Rooseveltian 
luck attended him. During his first days’ hunt for the King of 
Beasts he killed three lions. This gave Col. Roosevelt the record 
for lion hunting in that part of Africa. 
In view of the former President’s advent in Africa the dangers 
of the "sleeping sickness,” prevalent in that far-off country, has 
