New-York tribune., 1909-04-18
BAG TEN LIONS
In ONE DAY
TON.fN HUNTER KILLS
FOUR OF THEM.
Erciting Sport of Party of Three
in British East 44fricd-Mdsdi
Re0rer SaUed One.

listing British East Africa in quest Of
h5r -ar,e ana On our arrival at Mombasa at once
proceeded by the railway TO Stony Atm stauoh'
taking with us q Swahih headman named Aoouf-
lsk cook four gun bearers three tent boys ana
more than fifty por1ers, who had been engaged IN
advance for Us by one Of the leading trading
houses" says Walter Cooper in The Wide World
Magazine"
soon after leaving Mombssa one gets into very
desolste tllornbush country. which continues with
-. ,,,.e,,,,;seior ,iI1 one reaches Vol After Vol
one catches occasional glinpses OF antelope IN te
Thin thornbus but it is not until the Capiu p4Sii'
are reached that they seen in NUMBERS
From the oak bungalow at kia We could sec
Eilir,aaro rising majestically from the fat plain
snd locking about four miles Off instead O tne
seventy-odd which knew it TO be- we ali lei'
rather forlorn. being dumped down on 10 lhe e'1~
-ior platfor1n with no but Babu station mas
Yer 1c give US advice for We were All ne" AT tLe
game except Captain H, who had done q NUS
shikar in India. he had brought win MN hiS
sister Miss Sybil H, who was anxious 10 us
her hand big game
The following morning We had Just sIarieo
Breakfast when one Of the porters came running -
to s2r that while gathering nFe"ooo ne Nd1
seen seven lions including three me niaileu oioS
We started st once. accompanied by our gun pea
'ers and two Nasal boys VINO were 1e0Oti -
US TO carry second guns
.,f,n orr WAY to the place where the lions hao
been seen We had cross perfectly open grasss
plain inteTsected every now and theh Dy sn4HIi'
dry wafer courses. Ill,
we had not gone far when we saw a non siliih
fnr along 2 depression in the ground toward d
cl,,r,r of dry reeds. which he entered AFTER a
camel Of war It was decided that one or the men
should go round and set fire 10 the reeos' "Il4ie
We posted ourselves for a pheasant orlNe MSS
H was in the middle facing the feeos' "iiHs'
sCsn+ajn II was on her left and on her TlghI
Soon the reeds were blazing high, with NOISE I-e
q waterfall -
IAN instant later straight in front Of Captain
II a large Ioncss bounded across q gap in liie
,,.eds followed by several forms not easily dis
,tnSuisbable. She had evidently seen US, for I'M
,nedisteiy after, the rushing sound stopped anu
s-rours succeeded increasing IN volume as lHo
danes nearer
Suddenly, without she slightest warning ou'
rushed no fewer than seven lions, no DOUBT 'he
ones the porter had previously seen They passeu
between Miss H and myself. and appeared 70 Oe
tn. f,1u flight when two ionesses, apparently at
trscted t,z the movement the young woman macs
sn putting up her gun, turned ana mace sHH
FOR her They exactly in q line between Hle
and her 50 that ! unable TO shooI- MISS u
had not descended from long line OF soldieFs IoF
nothing Standing I'D boldly she put IN three shoIS
IS they ADVANCED. The first loness went over ike
a rabbit, with bullet in left eye, which pene-
trated the brain; the two other shots merely
checked the second Unable 10 do anything 10 help
hsr in another instant expected TO see Miss H
hurled 10 the ground aid worried TO death ny inc
enraged beast But al this critical 1uncture her
gun bearer I9assar., thinking matters were getting
somewhat too exciting. took TO his heels