I Cut Out The Tongue
And Hung It Up To Dry, Intending To Keep It As
A Trophy; But Unfortunately A Vulture Swooped
Down When My Back Was Turned, And Carried
It Off.
From the time I knocked the lion over until
he first staggered and fell not more than a
minute
Could have elapsed - quite long enough,
however, to have enabled him to cover the
distance and to have seized one or other of us.
Unquestionably we owed our lives to the fact
that we both remained absolutely motionless; and
I cannot speak too highly of Mahina for the
splendid way in which he stood the charge. Had
he acted as did another gun-boy I know of, the
affair might not have had so happy an ending.
This gun-boy went out with Captain G - - in
this very neighbourhood, and not long after our
adventure. G - - came across a lion just as
we did, and wounded it. It charged down on
them, but instead of remaining absolutely still,
the terrified gun-boy fled, with the result that the
lion came furiously on, and poor G - - met
with a terrible death.
While Mahina was scouring the neighbourhood
in search of some natives to carry the skin back
to camp, I took a good look round the place
and found the half-eaten body of a zebra,
which I noticed had been killed out in the open
and then dragged into the long grass. The tracks
told me, also, that all the work had been done
by the lion, and this set me thinking of the
lioness.
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