In The Meantime The
Lion, Hearing The Noise Of The Squabble, Halted
On The Crest Of The Hill To Take
A deliberate
look at me, and then disappeared over the brow.
I jumped on to my mule and galloped as
Hard as
I could after him, and luckily found the pair
still in sight when I reached the top of the rise.
As soon as they saw me following them up,
the lioness took covert in some long grass that
almost concealed her when she lay down, but
the lion continued to move steadily away.
Accordingly I made for a point which would
bring me about two hundred yards to the right
of the lioness, and which would leave a deep
natural hollow between us, so as to give me a
better chance, in the event of a charge, of
bowling her over as she came up the rise towards
me. I could plainly make out her light-coloured
form in the grass, and took careful aim and fired.
In an instant she was kicking on her back and
tossing about, evidently hard hit; in a few seconds
more she lay perfectly still, and I saw that she was
dead.
I now turned my attention to the lion, who
meanwhile had disappeared over another rise.
By this time Mahina and the other Indian, with
three or four of the disappointed Wa Kamba,
had come up, so we started off in a body in
pursuit of him. I felt sure that he was lurking
somewhere in the grass not far off, and I knew
that I could depend upon the native eye to find
him if he showed so much as the tip of his ear.
Nor was I disappointed, for we had scarcely
topped the next rise when one of the Wa Kamba
spotted the dark brown head of the brute as he
raised it for an instant above the grass in order
to watch us.
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