It was the largest one of the eleven killed in our hunting trip, and was killed with a little .256 Mannlicher, the same weapon with which she shot her record elephant on Mount Kenia.
In the tall-grass method, native beaters are sent in long skirmish line through swamps and such places as lions like to lay up in during the hours of daylight.

The beaters chant a weird and rather musical refrain as they advance and thrash the high reeds with their sticks.

Reedbuck, sometimes a bushbuck, frequently hyenas, and many large owls are driven out of nearly every good-sized swamp.

The hunters divide, one or more on each side of the swamp and slightly ahead of the line of beaters.

As the lion springs out it is up to the hunter nearest to it to meet it with the traditional unerring shot.
[Photograph: The Tree Method of Lion Shooting] [Photograph: Dragged a Zebra to the Boma] [Photograph: By courtesy of W.D.Boyce.