30 LLOYD’S WMTURAL HISTORY. 
killed no less than eight Lions at a place called Patulghar, 
seventy miles north-west of Guna. The last Lion killed in 
Central India, of which I can find any record, was shot by 
Colonel Hallnear Gunain 1873. . . . Ihave heard too ot 
a Lion being killed in 1888 in Guzerat, so that it is evident 
that the animal is not yet extinct in India, although it seems 
probable that it soon will be.” Since this passage was written, 
the present writer has been informed that Lions still exist in 
Kattiawar (a district of Guzerat), where they are now strictly 
preserved by the Indian Government. His informant also 
states that during the Mutiny-time (that is to say, early in the 
“ fifties”) Colonel George Acland Smith killed upwards of 
three hundred Indian Lions, fifty of which were bagged in the 
Delhi district. 
In South Africa, where these animals formerly abounded, 
Messrs. Nicolls and Eglington write that a few Lions “still 
remain in the extreme northern confines of the Zoutpansberg 
district of the Transvaal, and about Delagoa Bay. In British 
Bechuanaland their presence is now and then reported from 
the extreme westwardly course of the Molopo river, before its 
waters become absorbed in the waters of the southern 
Kalahari. But northward, without mentioning any particular 
locality, throughout South-Central Africa, wherever large game 
is plentiful, they are more or less numerous, particularly so in 
the low-lying countries along the East Coast, and the presence 
of Burchell’s Zebras in quantities is a sure indication that 
Lions are to be found in the vicinity.” 
Very similar testimony is given by Mr. H. A. Bryden, who, 
after mentioning that only occasional traces of their presence 
are to be met with in British Bechuanaland, states that “not 
many Lions are nowadays heard of until Khama’s country 
is reached and Palachwe left behind. Along the Botletli they 
are still numerous, expecially in the busier parts nearing Lake 
