"In one season man-eating lions had killed and carried off thirty five natives from a Wonki settlement and when our expedition arrived the villagers had built huts in the trees and were literally roosting with the fowls for safety."

In 1911, Frederick Russell Burnham published a short 12-page article "The Lion's Raid," in Collier's: The National Weekly (October 14, 1911), about his experiences hunting man-eating lions in Africa.

Burnham the famous American scout had crossed the paths of many man-eating lions during his time in Africa participating in the First Matabele War, Shangani Patrol, Northern Rhodesia Exploration, Second Matabele War, and Second Boer War. His observations on lions during his time in Africa are intriguing.

About the author:

Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (1861 –1947) was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. He helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.