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oxen, sheep, goats, and 'pigs which were killed by lions, and it soon mounted up to over 200 

 ho;ul. During the same time several white men wire also mauled by linns, and one unfortunate 

 man named Teale was dragged from beneath the cart, where he was sleeping by the side of a 

 native driver, and at once killed and eaten. Several of the horses were killed inside rough 

 shelters serving .is stables. In the following year ( [891 ) over 100 jii^s were killed in one night 

 by a single lioness. These pigs were in a series of pens, separated one from another, but all 

 under one low thatched roof The lioness forced her way in between two poles, and apparently 

 was unable, after having satisfied her hunger, to find her way out again, and, becoming angry 

 and frightened, wandered backwards and forwards through the pens, killing almost all the pigs, 

 each one with a bite at the back of the head or neck. This lioness, which had only eaten portions 

 of two young pigs, made her escape before daylight, but was killed with a set gun the next night 

 by the owner of the pigs. , 



When lions grow old, they are always liable to become man-eaters. Finding their strength 

 failing them, and being no longer able to hunt and pull down large antelopes or zebras, they are 

 driven by hunger to killing small animals, such as porcupines, and even tortoises, or they may 

 visit a native village and catch a goat, or kill a child or woman going for water; and finding a 

 human being a very easy animal to catch and kill, an old lion which has once tasted human flesh 

 will in all probability continue to be a man-eater until he is killed. On this subject, in his 

 •• Missionary Travels," Dr. Livingstone says: " A man-eater is invariably an old lion; and when 

 he overcomes his fear of man so far as to come to villages for goats, the people remark, ' His 

 teeth are worn ; he will soon kill men.' They at once acknowledge the necessity of instant 

 action, and turn out to kill him." it is the promptness with which measures are taken by the 



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TIGRESS 



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Were the gran seen here the normal height of that in the Indian jungles, the upright lines ivoutd harmonise ivith the stripes, and render the 



tiger almost invisible 



