Note 45 — Chapter VIII · FIRST JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABÉLEH RIVER (continued)
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She had actually come back half a mile on her tracks to follow us, with what motive I know not, unless it was to see us safe off the ground. A lion will often, on seeing men in the jungle, follow them in order to mark them down and find out the site of their karia, with a view to future seizures of cattle or human beings.