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TO LAKE NAIVASHA 
feet, her charge carrying 
her several yards by him. 
Mearns had galloped into 
a herd of wildebeest and 
killed the big bull of the 
herd, after first running 
clean through a mob of 
zebras, which, as he 
passed, skinned their long 
yellow teeth threat¬ 
eningly at him, but 
made no attempt ac¬ 
tually to attack him. 
A settler had 
come down to trade 
A sick Masai boy and his father 
The sheep is a present to Dr. Mearns for services 
From a photograph by J. A Iden Loring 
Now we found that Dr. Mearns 
had been quite busily engaged in 
attending to cases of men who 
were hurt by lions. Loring nearly 
got in the category. He killed 
his lioness with a light automatic 
rifle, utterly unfit for use against 
African game. Though he actu¬ 
ally put a bullet right through 
the beast’s heart, the shock from 
the blow was so slight that she 
was not stopped even for a 
second; he hit her four times in 
all, each shot being mortal— 
for he was an excellent marks¬ 
man—and she died nearly at his 
Masai guides on Sotik trip 
From a photograph by Edmund Heller 
