We afterward followed her, but she escaped from view and could not be located.

This lion was the largest we had seen and measured nine feet from tip to tip.
This was our last experience with lions in the Trans-Tana country.

After that we went up in the elephant country on Mount Kenia, but that is a story all in itself.
Lion hunting is the best kind of African hunting in one respect.

One feels no self-reproach in having killed a lion, for there is always the comforting thought that by killing one lion you have saved the lives of three hundred other animals.

Every lion exacts an annual toll of at least that number of zebras, hartebeests, or other forms of antelopes, all of which are powerless to defend themselves against the great creature that creeps upon them in cover of darkness.