The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-06-17

orr arrival at Mombasa at once pro-
ooeded by the railway TO Stony Athl
citation. taking with us a Swahill
beadman named Abdullah, a cook,
four gun bearers, three tent boys and
more than fifty porters, 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 Mombasa one
GETS into a very desolate thornbush
country, which continues without in
termiSion till one reaches Vol After
Vol one catches occasional glimpses
Of antelope, in the thin thornbush,
lint It is not until the ,Capiti plains
are reached that they are seen in
numbers.
From the dak bungalow at Kia
we could see Kilimanjaro, rising ma
iestically from the fat plain and
looking about four miles of, instead
of the seventy-odd which we knew
n 10 be. We all felt rather forlorn,
being dumped down on to the station
nlatform with no one but a Babu
station master to give us advice, for
we we're all new at the game except
Captain H, who had done a little
shikar in India. He had brought
with him his sister, Miss Sybil H,
who was anxious to try her hand at
big game.
The following morning we had
lust started breakfast when one Of
the porters came running in to say
that while he was gathering firewood
he had seen seven lions, including
three fine named ones. We started
at once, accompanied by our gun
pearers and two Nasal boys who were
recommended to us to carry second
guns.
ION our way to the place where
the lions had been seen we had to
cross a perfectly open grassy plain,
intersected every now and then by
small, dry water courses,
1--WE had not gone far when we
saw lion Sinking along a depression
in the ground toward clump Of dry
reeds, which he entered. After a
council Of war it was decided that
one Of the men should go round and
set fire to the reeds. while we posted
ourselves as for pheasant drive.
Miss H was in the middle, facing
the reeds, whilst Captain H was on
her left and on her right. Soon the
reeds were blazing high, with a noise
like a waterfall
IAN instant later, straight in front
of Captain H, a large lioness
bounded across a gap in the reeds,
followed by several forms not easily
distinguishable She had evidently
seen us, for Immediately after, the
rushing sounds stopped and growls
succeeded. increasing in volume as
the flames came nearer.
Suddenly, without the slightest
warming, out rushed no fewer than
seven lions, no doubt the ones the
porter had previously seen. They
passed between Miss H and myself,
and appeared to be in full flight
when two lionesses, apparently at
tracted by the movement the young
woman made in putting up her gun
turned and made straight for her
They were exactly In a line between
/ me and her, so that / was unable &c
shoot. Miss H had not descended
from a long line of soldiers for moth
ing Standing up boldly she put II
three shots as they advanced. the
first lioness went over like a rabbit
with a bullet in its left eye, which
penetrated the brain; the two othel
shots merely checked the second I'm
able to do anything to help her, II
another instant / expected to SCI
Miss H hurled to the ground anC
worried to death by the enrageo
beast, But at this critical junctur'
her gun bearer, Hassar, thinking mat
ters were getting somewhat too ez
citing, took to his heels.
Saved by an Accident.
THE lioness, attracted by the sigh
Of TIE fleeing man, or else afraid g
the fearless figure, IN 'front.' VINO "a'
not to be intimidatrd by her charge
swerved off suddenly ard made attei
the fugitive. The man had not more
than twenty yards start, and th'
great brute rapidly overlook MN
Miss H. fred again, and we mel
both fred as well, but we we're no
near enough to make a good running
shot. The wretched' man, win
courage born Of desperation turne'
at the last moment and hit-at the ION
ess with his rife The blow fell
bit short. and the enraged brute