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Title: Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Smith, Arthur Donaldson, 1866-1939 Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914 Simon, Eugène, 1848-1924 Pocock, R. I. (Reginald Innes), 1863-1947 Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932 Gregory, J. W. (John Walter), 1864-1932 Crick, G. C. (George Charles), 1856-1917 Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 Jordan, Karl, 1861-1959
Subjects: Smith, Arthur Donaldson, 1866-1939 Natural history
Publisher: London, New York : E. Arnold, 1897
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e beadsight,and pulled the trigger. Bang ! and then what a roar! Shewas not dead, but I knew she would be mine — or I wouldbe hers, one or the other — later on. The bullet had struckher just a little too far forward, and lower down than I hadaimed, and had broken her shoulder to pieces. With aspring she was back in the bushes, where she spent the restof the night growling and snarling, the sounds only dyingaway as daylight appeared. In the morning, having sent for some boys to drive theanimal, I started around to take up my position on oneside of a mass of bushes, where I thought the beast wasconcealed, when suddenly the lioness rose from the thickgrass with a growl, not more than seven yards ahead ofme. Before I could take aim, she was back again in thebushes with a mighty leap. It was most fortunate that herspring was in the opposite direction from me, for by allodds a wounded lioness is the worst beast to encounter inAfrica. I took my .577 now, as I could shoot more quickly and
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A WOUNDED LIONESS. 149 accurately with this rifle, and proceeded to have the bushesdriven ; but I found it very difficult to dislodge the lioness.She would appear every now and then in some opening,and the next second would spring back again in the bushes.On one of these occasions I gave her another shot in thesame shoulder that I had broken the night before. Finallya boy called to me that he could seethe lioness lying in thebushes very near me. I went over to him, and sure enough,there was the beast, very near indeed, — only ten yardsaway, with her head flattened against the ground, snarlingand looking straight at us. But the next instant almostmy rifle rang out her death note, and the lioness simplystretched out her legs, without ever feeling the ball thathad hit her, as I had struck her in the back of the neck. Nothing more was seen of the lions, but I returned tobreakfast in a very happy frame of mind, having baggedmy lioness, and having been a witness to a most interest-ing and

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