I Did Not At All Like The Idea Of Walking The
Half-Mile To The Place After Dark, But All The Same
I Felt Fairly Safe, As One Of My Men Carried A Bright
Lamp Close Behind Me.
He in his turn was followed
by another leading a goat, which I tied under my
tree in the hope that the lion might be tempted to
seize it instead of a coolie.
A steady drizzle
commenced shortly after I had settled down to my
night of watching, and I was soon thoroughly
chilled and wet. I stuck to my uncomfortable
post, however, hoping to get a shot, but I well
remember the feeling of impotent disappointment
I experienced when about midnight I heard
screams and cries and a heart-rending shriek, which
told me that the man-eaters had again eluded me
and had claimed another victim elsewhere.
At this time the various camps for the workmen
were very scattered, so that the lions had a range
of some eight miles on either side of Tsavo to
work upon; and as their tactics seemed to be to
break into a different camp each night, it was most
difficult to forestall them. They almost appeared,
too, to have an extraordinary and uncanny faculty
of finding out our plans beforehand, so that no
matter in how likely or how tempting a spot we lay
in wait for them, they invariably avoided that
particular place and seized their victim for the
night from some other camp.
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