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IN AFRICA 
The boma method is slightly more dangerous and 
much more exciting. A lot of thorn branches are 
twisted together in a little circle, within which the 
hunter sits and waits for his lion. As in the tree 
method, a bait is placed near the boma, twelve or 
fifteen yards away, and a little loophole is arranged 
in the tangle of thorn branches through which the 
rifle may be trained upon the bait. 
The Boma Method 
The lion can not get into the boma unless he 
jumps up and comes in from the top. It is the 
function of the hunter to prevent this strategic 
manoeuver by killing the lion before he gets in. If 
he does not, he is likely to find himself engaged in a 
spirited hand-to-hand fight with an unfriendly lion 
in a space about as big as*the upper berth of a sleep¬ 
ing-car. 
My first boma was a meshwork of thorns piled 
and interwoven together with the architectural sim- 
