Both of the animals were young lionesses of the same age and nearly full grown.
Sometimes, when a lion is driven to bay in the tall grass at the end of a swamp, the beaters refuse to advance, and it then becomes necessary for the hunter to go in and take the lead.

An occasion of this sort was among the most thrilling of my African experiences.
An immense swamp had been beaten out and nothing had developed until the beaters were almost at the end of the swamp.

Extending from the end and joining it was a patch of wire-like reeds, eight or ten feet high and covering two or three acres.

This high grass was almost impenetrable by a man, and it was only possible to go through it by throwing one's weight forward and crushing down the dense growth.

The grass grew from hummocks, between which were deep water channels.