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they ran, the lions caught and pulled down one 

 of them. The next morning I thought I might 

 possibly have to follow my frightened oxen a long 

 way before overtaking them, but I found them 

 feeding quietly, and showing no signs of having 

 been terrified, only a few hundred yards away. On 

 the whole, I do not think that domestic animals 

 have that ingrained and instinctive fear of lions 

 with which they are usually credited, though the 

 smell of these animals is doubtless disagreeable to 

 them. 



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