Then the first Somali laughed long and loud and said, 'I've held him three days, now you hold him three days.' Then he strolled down the road and disappeared.

For seven days the second Somali held the lion and then by the same subterfuge turned it over to a third Somali.

By this time the lion was pretty tired, so after one day the Somali shook the lion hard and then took out his knife and stabbed it to death." * * * * * Sulimani was my second gunbearer.

His name wasn't Sulimani, but some one gave him that name because his own Kikuyu name was too hard to pronounce and impossible to remember.

Sulimani was quite a study.