. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . inthe excitement of the moment utterly forgetting thesecond lion in the other bush, now behind us, 1 waspromptly reminded by shouts and two rapidly-firedshots in that direction. Turning round, I was just intime to see this second beast, also a lioness, bound out, ayellow streak, from the thick covert, growlino; as the firsthad done. On seeing me she stopped dead, standingwith head erect among the green rushes by the lake-shore,and looking over her shoulder towards us. I rememberseeing her white teeth as she comm
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . inthe excitement of the moment utterly forgetting thesecond lion in the other bush, now behind us, 1 waspromptly reminded by shouts and two rapidly-firedshots in that direction. Turning round, I was just intime to see this second beast, also a lioness, bound out, ayellow streak, from the thick covert, growlino; as the firsthad done. On seeing me she stopped dead, standingwith head erect among the green rushes by the lake-shore,and looking over her shoulder towards us. I rememberseeing her white teeth as she commenced another growl—she was only twenty yards away—but that movement A LION-DRIVE 45 was lier last. A Paradox ball on the shoulder droppedher from our sight. When this second lioness first bounced within sightI had thrown up the Paradox for a snapshot, thinkingshe was comino; straio-ht on: but on her hesitatino- asdescribed, by an inspiration I glanced along the sightsto assure myself that the aim was correct. The gunwas then pointing a clear inch above her shoulder 1 )^t ^. LIONESSES EIGHT AND LEFT. {By artistic licence grouped nearer than they actually fell.) Both animals lay quite dead within thirty yards ofeach other; yet my companion, Elmi, who, while theywere yet living, had been as bold and collected as thoughwe had merely been engaged with antelopes, now de-veloped a curious degree of caution. Probably he wasright and acting on experience, but he would not allowme to approach till he had collected sundry sticks andstones and thrown several at either carcase. While Elmi and I w^re thus occupied, we had heardseveral rifle-shots away on our right. It now tran-spired that a third lioness had also been secured by the 46 ON SAFAEI auns who (as above mentioned) had gone off in thatdirection. The first shot was put in by the Sub-Commissioner, Mr. C. W. Hobley. All three lionesseswere dragged out of the covert by our boys, and laidin a row on the grass outside, where a scene
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