On Getting To
The Other Side, However, They Were Nowhere To
Be Seen, So We Drove On As Hard As We Could
To The Top, Whence We Caught Sight Of Them About
Four Hundred Yards Away.
As there seemed to
be no prospect of getting nearer we decided to
open fire at this range, and at the third shot the
lioness tumbled over to my .303.
At first I
thought I had done for her, as for a few minutes
she lay on the ground kicking and struggling;
but in the end, although evidently badly hit, she
rose to her feet and followed the lion, who had
escaped uninjured, into some long grass from
which we could not hope to dislodge them.
As it was now late in the afternoon, and as there
seemed no possibility of inducing the lions to
leave the thicket in which they had concealed
themselves, we turned back towards camp,
intending to come out again the next day to track the
wounded lioness. I was now riding "Blazeaway"
and was trotting along in advance of the
tonga, when suddenly he shied badly at a hyena,
which sprang up out of the grass almost from
beneath his feet and quickly scampered off. I
pulled up for a moment and sat watching the
hyena's ungainly bounds, wondering whether he
were worth a shot. Suddenly I felt "Blazeaway"
trembling violently beneath me, and on
looking over my left shoulder to discover the
reason, I was startled to see two fine lions not
more than a hundred yards away, evidently the
pair which I had seen the day before and which
we had really come in search of.
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