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...young man immediately answered, "Easier to kill a lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...right ear, as if throwing a fastball. The spear sails up, too high, and at the apex, points straight skyward, and then collapses in the air, subsiding downward on its butt, ignominiously, like one of the early failed rockets from Cape Canaveral. Lord Delamere would not wish to hunt lion with the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...laibon has been chased by lions many times. The worst attack came one evening when he was walking to another enk'ang to see his girlfriend. (The visitor savored the idea of a witch doctor going to pick up his girlfriend for a date.) The lion stalked and menaced him for a long distance, the laibon jabbing with his spear, the lion never quite attacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...quite considerate, really," says Hall. There is a cabbage tree next to his house. "The elephants pushed down all of the other cabbage trees here, but they left that one standing, because they did not want it to fall on the house." A pride of seven or eight lions lives on his spread. Hall says that the lions do not have a strong appetite for beef, and besides, if they should kill a cow, it is a tax write-off. Twenty years ago, he did have to shoot a lion, one that had killed 46 of his cows. The lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Moses and Olentwala and the American set off from the boma one morning to spend the day out in the hills with 140 head of high-humped Boran cattle. Moses carried his long-bladed lion-killing spear. Olentwala, a man in his early 20s who had never been a warrior, carried a less lethal-looking spear, lighter, with less metal on the killing end. They held in their left hands the club-shaped rungu and a walking stick of olive wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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