3 6 Lloyd's natural history. 



by night on camps, the writer last mentioned stating that only 

 one such instance has come under his personal observation. 

 With regard to the danger of tracking up a wounded Lion, 

 there seems to be some difference of opinion among experts, 

 Mr. Jackson stating that he has only known of two instances 

 where Lions thus followed up have charged home; one of these 

 being a Lioness which attacked Sir Robert Harvey. On the 

 other hand, Mr. Selous speaks very emphatically as to the 

 danger attending such a proceeding ; while Messrs. Nicolls and 

 Eglington write " that following up one of these wounded 

 animals in thick bush without the assistance of 'dogs can only 

 be attended by extreme peril." 



On the subject of the manner in which the Lion strikes 

 down its prey, Mr. Jackson writes : " Although I have care- 

 fully examined the carcases of several Buffaloes and Zebras, 

 I have never been able to discover anything about them to 

 warrant my expressing an opinion as to how they had actually 

 been killed by the Lions. The most noticeable thing about 

 two freshly-killed Buffaloes and one Zebra was the terrible way 

 in which they were lacerated on the hind-quarters, evidently by 

 the Lions at their first spring and during the subsequent des- 

 perate struggle before they actually killed them. In every 

 case where I found a fresh kill, the stomach had been torn 

 open, and the liver, heart, and entrails had formed the first 

 meal." Messrs. Nicolls and Eglington express a more decided 

 opinion on this subject, stating that although Lions have 

 different modes of seizing and killing their prey, yet that the 

 method " usually adopted in the case of the Ox or the Eland, 

 when springing on to the back of one of these animals, is to 

 insert the claws deep into the flesh of the victim, those of the 

 left hind-foot low down on the near flank, almost at the 

 stomach, those of the right hind-paw high on the rump, the 

 right fore-paw in the centre of the off shoulder, and, with the 



