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Ngami. And round the lake, in the Mabebi veldt, and about 

 the Chebi and Zambesi they are always to be found. In other 

 places, too, between Palachwe and the Zambesi, Lions' spoor 

 is pretty sure to be seen in the vicinity of water. In the true 

 Kalahari country there are few; here water is scarce, and 

 Lions cannot exist without water. In the south-eastern part 

 of Khama's country, along the Limpopo, and near the Shashi 

 and Macloutsi rivers, they are still (or were till very lately) 

 occasionally heard of." At the time that Mashonaland was 

 opened up by the Chartered Company in 1890, Lions were 

 not only extraordinarily abundant, but likewise remarkable 

 for their boldness and audacity, despatch-riders being often 

 followed by small troops of them at night, while there are 

 several instances of their having pursued men in broad day- 

 light. Cattle and mules were likewise carried off in numbers, 

 in defiance of all ordinary means of protection. With regard 

 to other parts of Africa, our information is not so full. Lions 

 are, however, still abundant in Somali-land, where, as already 

 mentioned, the males, as a whole, are characterised by the fine 

 development of their manes; although, according to Mr. Selous, 

 none of the Lions from that district equal in this respect the 

 very finest specimens from the Cape, where the average size of 

 the mane is less. From lower Egypt the Lion has, we believe, 

 disappeared, although it is still to be met with in considerable 

 numbers in the Sudan, as well as in Algeria and Morocco. In 

 the wooded regions of Senegal it is likewise abundant ; and 

 regarding its occurrence in Angola and the Congo district, 

 Professor Barboza du Bocage, in a paper published in the 

 journal of the Lisbon Scientific Society for 1883, writes as 

 follows : "The Lion appears everywhere where large Ungulates, 

 such as Antelopes and Zebras, abound. To the north of the 

 Zaire its range seems confined to the upper Congo, above 

 Stanley Pool. In Angola it seems to have disappeared from 



