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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 
snsert 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 higlt on the rump, the 
right fore-paw in the centre of the off shoulder, and, with the 
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