FIRST GLIMPSE OF A WILD LION 
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of pleasure that swept over me. It seemed that of 
all human gratifications there was none equal to 
that experienced by the man who has killed his first 
lion. 
My second lion experience came three days later. 
With a couple of tents and about forty porters our 
party of four had marched across to a point a 
couple of miles from where I had killed the lion. 
We hoped to put in a day or two looking for lions, 
some of which had been reported in that district. 
The porters went on ahead with the camp equip¬ 
ment, while we came along more slowly. Mr. 
Akeley had taken some close-range photographs of 
rhinos, and we were just on the point of starting 
direct for the new camp when we ran across two 
enormous rhinos standing in the open plain. One 
was extremely large, with an excellent pair of 
horns, and it was arranged that I should try to 
secure this one as a trpphy, while Mr. Akeley se¬ 
cured a photograph of the event. At thirty-five 
yards I shot the larger one of the two, and it 
dropped in its tracks. The other started to charge, 
but was finally driven away by shouting and by 
shots fired in the air. The photograph was excel¬ 
lent and quite dramatic. 
Tor an hour the gunbearers worked on the dead 
rhino and finally secured the head and feet and 
certain desirable parts of the skin. At noon we re¬ 
sumed our march for camp, two or three miles 
away. We had hardly gone half the distance when 
one of the tent boys was seen far ahead, riding the 
