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to be found a more skilful or more hard- her eye; his horse jumped and swerved at 
working hunter; yet he never even got a the shot, throwing him off, and he found 
shot. Williams, on the other hand, came himself sitting-on the ground, not three 
across three. Two he killed easily. The yards from the dead lioness. Nothing 
third charged him. He was carrying a more was seen of the other, 
double-barrelled .450, but failed to stop the . Continually I met men with experiences 
beast; it seized him by the leg, and his life Bin their past lives which showed how close 
was saved by his Swahili gun-bearer, who / the country was to those primitive condi- 
Mr. Roosevelt laying the corner-stone at Kijabe Mission. 
From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. 
gave the lion a fatal shot as it stood over 
him. He came within an ace of dying; but 
when I saw him, at the hospital, he was 
well on the road to recovery. One day 
Selous while on horseback saw a couple of 
lionesses, and galloped after them, followed 
by Judd, seventy or eighty yards behind. 
One lioness stopped and crouched under a 
bush, let Selous pass, and then charged 
Judd. She was right alongside him, and 
he fired from the hip; the bullet went into 
tions in which warfare with wild beasts was 
one of the main features of man’s existence. 
At one dinner my host and two of my fellow 
guests had been within a year or eighteen 
months severely mauled by lions. All 
three, by the way, informed me that the 
actual biting caused them at the moment 
no pain whatever; the pain came later. 
On meeting Harold Hill, my companion on 
one of my Kapiti plains lion hunts, I found 
that since I had seen him he had been 
