From this time matters gradually became worse
and worse. Hitherto, as a rule, only one of the
man-eaters had made the attack and had done the
foraging, while the other waited outside in the bush
;
but now they began to change their tactics, entering
the bomas together and each seizing a victim. In
this way two Swahili porters were killed during the
last week of November, one being immediately
carried off and devoured. The other was heard
moaning for a long time, and when his terrified com-
panions at last summoned up sufficient courage to go
to his assistance, they found him stuck fast in the bushes of the boma, through which for once the lion
had apparently 'been unable to drag him. He was
still alive whenI saw him next morning, but so
terribly mauled that he died before he could be got
to the hospital.
Within a few

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