I Was
Leading The Way, Followed Closely By Mahina And
Mabruki, When Suddenly We Almost Walked Upon
A Lion Which
Was lying down at the side of
the path and which had probably been asleep.
It gave a fierce growl
And at once bounded off
through the bush; but to Mabruki - who
doubtless recalled then the warning I had given him
in fun earlier in the day - the incident appeared
so alarming that he flung down his stick-load of
meat and fled for his life, much to the
amusement of the others, even the usually silent Wa
Kamba joining in the general laughter as they
scrambled for the discarded meat. We saw
nothing more of the lion, though a few steps
further on brought us to the remains of a zebra
which he had recently killed and feasted on;
but after this Mabruki kept carefully in the
rear. Curiously enough, only a short while later
we had an exactly similar adventure with a
rhino, as owing to the tortuous nature of the
path, we walked right into it before we were
aware. Like the lion, however, it was more
frightened than we, and charged away from us
through the jungle.
For about two hours we pursued our journey
into the plateau, and saw and heard a wonderful
variety of game, including giraffe, rhino,
bush-buck, the lesser kudu, zebra, wart-hog, baboons
and monkeys, and any number of paa, the last
being of a redder colour than those of the Tsavo
valley.
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