We followed them and came up with them after a brisk walk of ten minutes.

Both were hiding in the grass near the crest of the slope, and we could see their ears and eyes above the long grass.
We crouched down a hundred yards away and the lion rose to see where we had gone.

Mrs.Akeley fired and missed, but her second shot pierced his brain and he fell like a log.

We expected a charge from the lioness and waited until she should declare herself.

But she did not appear and her whereabouts remained an anxious mystery until she was finally seen several hundred yards away making her way slowly up a distant hill.
Half-way up she sat down and watched us as we made our way cautiously in the grass to where her mate lay as he fell, stone dead.