On one or two occasions, we found in the morning
that the lions had come quite close to the fence ;
but fortunately they never succeeded in getting
through.
By this time, too, the camps of the workmen had
also been surrounded by thorn fences
nevertheless
;
the lions managed to jump over or to break through
some one or other of these, and regularly every few
nights a man was carried off, the reports of the
disappearance of this or that workman coming in to
me with painful frequency.

Chapter 3