io6 Wild Beasts 



In making up a summary of what has gone before, the 

 writer is much indebted to this valuable work. 



We have no psychological scheme for lions, and must 

 take their characteristics as they happen to present them- 

 selves, without any pretence at arrangement, based either 

 upon their natural order or real importance. There is an 

 account given in MS. to Lloyd, the editor of Andersson's 

 posthumous papers, that shows the character of the Indian 

 lion in much the same light that his African congener has 

 been placed by Baker, Drummond, etc. 



" This beast was believed to have his lair in a patch of 

 copse-wood where, from the jungle having been some years 

 previously cut away by the natives for stakes and the like, 

 the young trees had grown up again so close and tangled 

 as to be almost impenetrable. But this patch was of no 

 great extent, its area, perhaps, not exceeding that of Gros- 

 venor Square. The other parts of the wood surrounding 

 the tank were in a state of nature, consisting of bushes 

 and timber trees. 



" On reaching the ground, the natives were stationed 

 in the trees thereabouts as markers. But it was not till 

 the party had beaten the patch with their elephants for 

 a considerable time that the lion was discovered to be on 

 foot, and some further time elapsed before he was viewed 

 as he was stealing away from the brake, along a sort of 

 hedge-row, for the more open country beyond. Captain 

 Delamaine, who was some forty or fifty paces from the 

 beast, then fired, and wounded him severely in the body. 



" On receiving the ball, the lion immediately faced 

 about, and charged my elephant, but the nerves of 



