In the meantime the cornered beast is charging savagely at the horsemen, who trust to the speed and quickness of their mounts to elude the angry rushes of the infuriated animal.

It is a most spectacular method of lion hunting and is only eclipsed in danger and daring by the native method of surrounding a lion and spearing it to death.
[Photograph: A Kikuyu Woman Uses Her Head] [Photograph: On the Athi Plains] [Photograph: It Was a Rakish Craft] To my knowledge, no one has ever "galloped" a lion in a carriage drawn by two mules, and probably few hunters have ever galloped three lions at one time under any conditions.
It was a memorable chase.

The mules were lashed into a gallop and the carriage rocked like a Channel steamer.

We were gaining rapidly and the distance separating us from the lions was quickly diminishing.

It seemed as if the three lions were not especially eager to escape, for they moved away slowly, as if half-inclined to turn upon us.
[Drawing: _It Rocked Like a Channel Steamer_] We hoped to overtake them before they reached the ravine or such uneven ground as would compel us to abandon the carriage.
Five hundred yards! Then four hundred yards, and soon three hundred yards.