A LION-DRIVE 
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which hour hunters are generally too fast asleep to hear 
it. The only occasions when I have heard a real roar 
were when waiting-out at night over a kill. On these 
ventures one has to spend the long, dark hours on a 
cartel, or framework, fixed up in the branches of a tree; 
and, under such conditions, is never so sound asleep but 
that the magnificent reverberating roar of a lion will 
speedily restore one to full consciousness. 
The herdsman-prophet of Tekoa understood the 
FIRST GLIMPSE OF A LION. 
habits of lions in this respect thousands of years ago, 
when he wrote (Amos iii. 4) |—“ Will a lion roar in the 
forest, when he hath no prey ? will a young lion cry 
out of his den, if he have taken nothing ? ” 
Well, on August 7, 1904, we were encamped along¬ 
side the railway at Nakuru, intending to start at dawn 
next morning on the long march to Lake Baringo, 
distant some seventy-five miles due north. A message, 
however, was conveyed to us during the evening that 
H.M.’s Commissioner (the late Sir Donald Stewart) was 
expected by train during the night, and it was proposed 
to organise a lion-drive on the morrow. We had with 
