It seemed that of all human gratifications there was none equal to that experienced by the man who has killed his first lion.
My second lion experience came three days later.

With a couple of tents and about forty porters our party of four had marched across to a point a couple of miles from where I had killed the lion.

We hoped to put in a day or two looking for lions, some of which had been reported in that district.

The porters went on ahead with the camp equipment, while we came along more slowly.

Mr.Akeley had taken some close-range photographs of rhinos, and we were just on the point of starting direct for the new camp when we ran across two enormous rhinos standing in the open plain.