HUNTING IN THE SOTIK 
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The wounded lioness 
From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 
Kermit was off all day with Tarlton, and killed a mag¬ 
nificent lioness. In the morning, on some high hills, he 
obtained a good impalla ram, after persevering hours of 
climbing and running—for only one of the gun-bearers 
and none of the whites could keep up with him on foot unless 
he went hard. In the afternoon at four he and Tarlton 
saw the lioness. She was followed by three three-parts 
grown young lions, doubtless her cubs, and, without any 
concealment, was walking across the open plain toward a 
pool by which lay the body of a wildebeest bull she had 
killed the preceding night. The smaller lions saw the 
hunters and shrank back, but the old lioness never noticed 
them until they were within a hundred and fifty yards. 
Then she ran back, but Kermit crumpled her up with his 
first bullet. He then put another bullet in her, and as 
she seemed disabled walked up within fifty yards, and took 
