She was sitting up snarling, and I was the most surprised person in the world.

I shot at her and she ran fifty yards to a small tree, where she came to a stop.
Two more shots from my big gun finished her, and the photograph was finally secured.
Leaving the porters to watch the two lions, we followed the third lion that had been seen in the valley.

He had not gone far and we soon found him, but too far away to get a shot.

For an hour we followed him, but he finally disappeared and could not be located again.
It was sundown when our porters reached camp with the two lions, and it was then that we ate our long-deferred luncheon.
A week later, while marching from the Tana River to the Zeka River, Mr.
and Mrs.Akeley and I came across a large lion, accompanied by a lioness.

They were first seen moving away across a low sloping ridge of the plains within a couple of miles of where we had killed the lion and lioness a week before.