er
been made in the very face of instant, impending, deadly peril.

A half-hour later Lion Number Two, slower of resolution than his mate,
fell to the _Sahib's_ first shot, with a broken neck, while lashing
himself into fit fury for a charge. This was more even than a royal
kill; each of the lions was, in size, a record among Jig-Jigga hunters,
the first measuring eleven feet one inch from tip of nose to tip of
tail, the second eleven feet.

And then the party marched back to camp with the trophies, Djama Aout,
the head _shikari_, chanting paeans to his Sahib's prowess, while his
mates roared a hoarse Somali chorus, and all night long, by ancient law
of _shikari_, the camp feasted, chanted, and danced, one sable
saga-maker after another chanting his pride to serve so valiant a
_Sahib_.

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