The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-05-31

long grass the opposite bank moved apart and
u graceful young lionoss stepped out into tho
open' was considerably taken aback for had
no means NJ o0cnse or defense: moreover sho
was lcss than q stones throw away from me
looked nj her and she looked NJ mo Then
as quietly as she had come she departed. My
dog had run toward mo meanwhile aud caught
a glimpse Of the lioness disappcaring In the long
grass lie dashed after her. and had much ado
to recall him. The lioncss crashed on at gal.
Top into the plains and that was the last | saw
Of hcr II was certainly a little upsctting and
quite spoiled my afternoons stroll Needless to
say I returned to my camp and next time took
stroll carried my gun with me. II is strange
that tho lioness should have been In these parts,
for never before had one been seen In that neigh
borhood
However a few days later I left Muhoronl to
run into Kisumu-forty miles away travelled
by a hand.propelled trolley on the railway The
triwcckly passenger train from the coast to tho
lake had preceded me by bare fifteen minutes.
Less than three miles out Of Muhoronl station.
m We we're descending dip In the railway
noticed something the track We were ap'
preaching II at n high rate OF speed and could
not at first make out what II was Suddenly.
when only about sixty yards away. two young
lioncsscs got up slowly from the track whore
they were lazily stretching themselves, aud
climbed the bank beside the track
had only n shotgun and did not dare nre at
them. for had only small bird.shot with me and
only two shells in all. I shouted TO my native
trolley boys to make the machine travel at its
highest speed and they stuck to their work like
heroes. We dashed past the two lloncsscs and
began our ascent Of the rise. Luckily tho two
cats did not attempt to follow or attack us
AS far as know, these are the only two occn
sions on which lions have been seen In this sec.
tion OF the country
But all my many encounters have not been so
easy as these. on some occasions they have
shown fight in a most determined manner one
In particular gave me some very anxious mo
ments | was out hunting meat and picked IN
the fresh trail OF n lion. I decided to follow and
In due course came up with him. lie was n
fine, unnamed specimen and fullgrown one
cast envlous eyes upon his hide and decided
come what might, TO add him to my trophos
Then began n hard stalk Tho lion would dash
on AT great speed and then disappear In tho
long grass would follow as fast as I could and
on reaching the spot where had last seen hin,
would adyanre with great caution Then no
would spring out and dash on again This was
repeated several times and II tired me and 80 I
lost patience esayed long shot and hit him
Ito disappeared in the long grass with a roar OF
pain and anger.
advanced carefully keeping a watchful eva
for possible developments | could see and bo,r
where he was, but could not get him TO coma an,
into the open knew that II was supreme foIIy
to follow him into the long grass-ln fact II wns
counting certain death I decided to burn him
out My porters and myself set FIRE to tho Iopg
grass and then stood ready to kill as tho hi,
beast dashed for safety
Suddenly with mighty roar he came hound.
Ing In huge leaps toward me. fired straight -,
his chest and raked him through the entire
.'hEth OF MS body fired second shot and sim
he came on, although he was MORALLY wonrdod
MY gun bearer handed me my - 'ond gun md I
hred again quickly, this time kn,hg him u,s
huge body fell with a crash almo.t NJ INV foo,
and ! was able TO breathe again fIsaly n had
been very exciting few minutes Rnd A, ana ,, ,"u
II looked as II the lion might win Tho sLiO
was ruined as far as being a good specimen ,,s
concerned for my shots had seriously DAMAGED
II However, he made bully trophy and was
had followed him into the long grass sbor,d
most certainly have been badly mauled an ,ho,
must have died either from shock or from cor,
creme poisoning Nearly every man who has
result OF following wounded lion into cn,,r
loolishly '''