Jordan - .... [Halford] Lucas shared a farm along the Athi with his partner Gibbons. They jumped a lion while riding along the tall river grass one morning, and raced after it. The lion went into the grass with a sudden swerve and as Gibbons' pony went by it sprang. It put its right fore paw into the pony, its left into Gibbons thigh. It held itself there and clawed at the pony's rump with its hind-claws. Gibbons could not get his gun to bear on the lion and all three went down. Lucas was afraid to shoot from the saddle, so he jumped off and ran forward and then the lion turned on him in a spring and took him down. Gibbons crawled from beneath the kicking pony and killed the lion. They got Lucas to Nairobi Hospital and the doctors looked at him and said they would have been far happier had they seen him earlier, for the poison from the lion's claws had taken hold of Lucas's legs and if he wished to live it would have to be without those legs. Lucas thought about this, and what it would be like in Africa for him without his legs, and he decided calmly that he would die instead. He lay in the hospital for two more days while the poison went up slowly from his thighs to his body, and he asked the doctors if there would be another day for him and they said there would not. So he called for his friends, and they came in and sat with him drinking whisky and soda, and they toasted him a happy death and he toasted them a long life, and so he died.

Kill - Riding down lions on horseback - Blayney Percival, G.H. Goldfinch (who later joined the Game Warden's Dept.), and Lucas, a settler at El Donyo Sabuk were the first to attempt to put the plan into practice. It ended in a terrible tragedy. Goldfinch was first attacked, and was badly bitten through the thigh. Then Lucas was attacked, the lion got him down and mauled him terribly before Goldfinch could crawl to his aid. As soon as Lucas had wriggled clear of the brute's head, Goldfinch shot her dead at close range. Percival had been hunting down a lion elsewhere and was not in sight. Lucas died in fearful pain a week later. Goldfinch made a remarkable recovery but was lamed for life.