Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-05-31

long grass on the opposite bank moved apart and
. graceful young Honess stepped out into the
open! was considerably taken aback for had
no means Of offense or defense; moreover. she
was less than stones throw away from me.
looked at her and she looked at me. Then
quietly as she had come she departed MY
dog had run toward me meanwhile and caught
glimpse Of the lioness disappearing in the long
grass He dashed after her. and had much ado
to recall him. The lioness crashed OF at gal
lop into the plains and that the last saw
Of her. It was certainly little upsetting and
quite spoiled my afternoons stroll Needless to
say returned to my camp and next time took
strollsI carried my gun with me. It is strange
that the Honess should have been in these parts.
for never before had one been seen in that neigh
borhood.
However, few days later left Muhoroni to
run into Kisumu-forty miles away. travelled
by hand-propelled trolley on the railway. The
tri-weekly passenger train from the coast 70 the
lake had preceded me by bare fifteen minutes
Less than three miles out Of Muhoroni station.
as we were descending dip in the railway,
noticed something on the track We were ap-
preaching 1t at high rate Of speed and could
not at first make out what it was. Suddenly,
when only about sixty yards away, two young
lionesses got up slowly from the track. where
they were lazily stretching themselves, and
climbed the bank beside the track!
had only shotgun and did not dare fire at
them. for had only small birdshot with me and
trolley boys to make the machine travel at its
highest speed and they stuck to their work like
heroes. We dashed past the two lionesses and
began our ascent of the RISE Luckily the two
cats did not attempt to follow attack us.
AS far as I know. these the only two occa-
sions on which lions have been seen in this sec
ton Of the country
But all my many encounters have not been so
easy as these. On some occasions they have
shown fight In q most determined manner One
In particular gave me some very anxious mo-
ments. l was out hunting meat and picked up
the fresh trail of q lion. decided to follow and
in due course came up with him. ~ was a
fine. unnamed specimen and full-grown one.
cast envious eyes upon his hide and decided.
come what might, to add him to my trophies
Then began q hard stalk. The lion would dash
of at q great speed and then disappear in the
long grass would follow as fast as could and
on reaching the spot where l had last seen him.
would advance with great caution. Then he
would spring out and dash OF again. This was
repeated several times and It tired me and %
lost patience. esayed q long shot and hit him.
He disappeared in the long grass with roar Of
pain and anger.
advanced carefully, keeping a watchful eye
for possible developments. could see and hear
where he was. but could not get him to come out
into the open. ! knew that it was supreme folly
to follow him into the long grass-in fact It was
counting certain death. decided to burn him
out My porters and myself set fire to the long
grass and then I stood ready to kill as the biz
beast dashed for safety.
Suddenly with mighty roar he came bound.
ing in huge leaps toward me. 1 fired straight at
his chest and raked him through the entire
length Of hts body. fred a second shot and stfn
he came on although he was MORALLY wounded.
Ny gun bearer handed me my second gun and
fred again quickly this time killing him. Hts
huge body fell with crash almost at nv feet !
and was able to breathe again freely It had
been very exciting few minutes and at one time
1t looked as II the lion might win. The skin |
was ruined as far as being good specimen was
for my shots had seriously damaged
1t. However he made bully trophy and was |
quite pleased with the results Of my shoot. n |
had followed him into the long grass should |
most certainly have been badly mauled 80 that |
must have died either from shock or from gan !
creme poisoning. Nearly every man who bas |
died at the hands Of lion has done so "A the |
result OF following wounded lion into cover
toolishfy.