Lectures on the Mountains: Or the Highlands and Highlanders as They Were and as They Are (1860)

When two native boys from Kenya are confronted by a man-eating lion, they kill it to save another manas life. Their actions precipitate the wrath of a sadistic game warden who is intent on tracking them down and capturing them, not only for killing the lion, but also for re-energizing his intense hatred of their tribe, whose brutality in the past had brought pain and suffering to his family.