Evening star., 1923-01-07

growing OF the IoneSS was heard.
We saw her break cover a couple of
times, trying to catch one of the dogs.
She was one-third grown and we
mistook her for a small cub, so Mr..
Rainey decided to rope her. He took
down his rope and made ready to bag
her the next time she broke cover:
| Suddenly he noticed her eyeing him
| from the cover, showing signs of
| charging, and realized she was larger
than he had supposed.
His gun was in the scabbard of his
saddle, so he drew his .45 Colt auto
matte pistol and placed a bullet in her
brain.
a # lunch one OF our boys came in
"A from Ulu with the report that a
| lion had killed a kongoni almost at
! the station door and had entered the
Nasal bomba and one Of their women
! had been caught and mauled as they
were trying to drive the brute away
with firebrands.
Mr.. Ousman was anxious to kill
these lions, as they had done much
damage among the natives. A month
! before they had killed two oxen be-
| longing to Lambert and Wilson,
| camped within a stones throw of the
station. This occurred in spite of the
| fact that the native drivers had fires
built all around them.
After lunch hartebeest were killed
to feed the boys and dogs and
couple more left for bait out near the
water hole.
The next morning, the safari re-
/ turned to UIu and the morning after
we were awakened long before dawn
by the growing of a. lion far away.
/ His bass voice at three miles sounded
much like the believing of a huge
bull at a quarter OF a mile away.
We were up and dressed at once,
ate our breakfast by light of the Ian
! terms, the dogs were loaded into the
gary, and we were on our way before
I dawn. The direction of the sound
4 took us to the railroad track, which
the gary" could not cross.
! As soon as we should pass over the
first hill we expected the dogs to pick
/ up the lions trail, but we went on
! and on. In the third donga there was
a lion-kill--legs and head OF kon-
I, goni remaining. Buster opened and
| the pack took up the trail and car
! ried it beautifully over a mile to the
/ east. On high ground the scent grew
stronger and the dogs began going
almost at their top speed.
1 1t was a fine sensation, galiopine
j at a good pace, with the sound OF
:; thirty voices in our ears, and watch
Il oAr In a
/ As we mounted rise we all saw
at q glance that we were doomed tc
another disappointment. for all OF the
/ ground for two-mile strip had beer
freshly burned. the fire being caused
by a passing train. We knew that
4 as soon as the dogs should strike this
] their nostrils would fill with the dry
I ashes of burned grass and the scent
would be lost
There was one hope left, that the
lion might turn up or down the donga
4 but he had made straight over the
/ burning. His big track at one place
was plainly visible. The dogs now
| got down to a walk and trailed hin
a ward at a time. The sun by this
time was mounting high. We tool
the dogs across the burning with the
hope of finding where he had come
out onto the grass again, but this
| we failed to do, and we returned Il
camp, somewhat disappointed.
We had only two weeks allotted vi
for this trip in the reserve, and thii
time he hoped to break our forme
record kill OF twenty-seven. Five
days wore already gone ana we has
only one small 1ioness.
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