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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 
