ACROSS COUNTRY IN A CARRIAGE 823 
beaters could hope to dislodge them from the dense 
security of the swamp. 
Talk about dejection! Our ride back to town 
was as mournful as a ride could be. We thought of 
the glory of driving through the streets of Nairobi 
with a lion or two hanging over the back of the car- 
It Would Have Been Historic 
riage. It would have been historic. Citizens would 
have talked of it for years. It would have taken an 
honored place in the lion-hunting literature of 
Africa, for no lion hunters have ever pursued a 
band of lions in a carriage and brought back a car¬ 
riage-load of them. 
We almost regretted having had the chance that 
we so heartbreakingly lost. 
