. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . esses of these caverns, but quite openly beneath over-hanging shelves of rock outside them. Where these beds were exposed to the full rays of the afternoonsun, a second lair would always be found a few yardsaway—round some projecting angle that afforded shelterfrom meridian heat. There were rarely any bones aboutthese dens—save indeed those of mice, relics of owlsand kestrels that also frequent the rocks. In one lion-cave grew a wild fig-tree. We worked all these koppies for miles along theLukenia Range, sometim
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . esses of these caverns, but quite openly beneath over-hanging shelves of rock outside them. Where these beds were exposed to the full rays of the afternoonsun, a second lair would always be found a few yardsaway—round some projecting angle that afforded shelterfrom meridian heat. There were rarely any bones aboutthese dens—save indeed those of mice, relics of owlsand kestrels that also frequent the rocks. In one lion-cave grew a wild fig-tree. We worked all these koppies for miles along theLukenia Range, sometimes stalking particular lairs thepositions of which were known, at others drivingsome great tumbled pile of rocks, or trying by grass-firesto smoke out secretive denizens. We put out jackalsand numberless hyrax, but never a lion. Sometimeswhen one realised that a beast was coming out by theexit where one held guard, it was almost a relief toobserve that it tvas only a jackal I > 3 >, 3 3 > ) > J 3% 3 > 3 13 3 3 , 3 J , 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ) 3 33331 3 3 3 3 3 3,3, 33. BULTIXG LIOXS. Only a Jackal.
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