Pool in gorge.—Page 33. 
From a photograph from R. J. Cuninghame. 
yards and I could not even keep them in long way off and stalked to within a couple 
sight. Another day we got a glimpse of two of hundred yards before we could make out 
lions, quarter of a mile off, gliding away her sex. She was standing under some 
among the thorns. They went straight to thorn-trees,- occasionally shifting her posi- 
the river and swam across it. More sur- tion for a few yards, and then again stand- 
prising was the fact that a monkey, which ing motionless with her head thrust in 
lost its head when we surprised it in a tree among the branches. She was indulging 
by the river, actually sprang plump into the in a series of noon naps. At last, when she 
stream, and swam, easily and strongly, stood and went to sleep again, I walked up 
across it. to her, Cuninghame and our two gunbear- 
One day we had a most interesting ex- ers, Bakhari and Kongoni, following a hun- 
perience with a cow giraffe. We saw her a dred yards behind. When I was within 
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