The Few
Scattered Fragments That Remained Of The Body
I Would Not Allow To Be Buried At Once, Hoping
That
The lions would return to the spot the
following night; and on the chance of this I took
up my
Station at nightfall in a convenient tree.
Nothing occurred to break the monotony of
my watch, however, except that I had a visit
from a hyena, and the next morning I learned
that the lions had attacked another camp about
two miles from Tsavo - for by this time the
camps were again scattered, as I had works
in progress all up and down the line. There
the man-eaters had been successful in obtaining
a victim, whom, as in the previous instance,
they devoured quite close to the camp. How
they forced their way through the bomas without
making a noise was, and still is, a mystery to me;
I should have thought that it was next to impossible
for an animal to get through at all. Yet
they continually did so, and without a sound
being heard.
After this occurrence, I sat up every night
for over a week near likely camps, but all in
vain. Either the lions saw me and then went
elsewhere, or else I was unlucky, for they took
man after man from different places without ever
once giving me a chance of a shot at them.
This constant night watching was most dreary
and fatiguing work, but I felt that it was a duty
that had to be undertaken, as the men naturally
looked to me for protection.
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