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had entirely disappeared from view. We rushed 
after him. The rhino was completely forgotten 
and was left to charge or run away as he saw fit. 
When we reached the spot where the lion was last 
seen there was no trace of him. He apparently was 
not “as brave as a lion.” We followed the course 
that he presumably took and presently reached the 
crest of a ridge. Then the second gunbearer, a 
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keen-eyed Kikuyu, discovered the lion three hun¬ 
dred yards off to the right. After reaching the top 
of the hill the animal had swung directly off at 
right angles with the idea of reaching cover in a 
dry creek bed some distance away. I started to 
shoot at three hundred yards, but before I could 
take a careful aim the lion had disappeared in the 
grass. For an hour we thrashed the high reeds in 
the dry creek bed with never a sign of the king of 
