THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



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greater part of the natives of Southern Africa to put an end to 

 any lion which may take to eating men that prevents these 

 animals as a rule from becoming the formidable pests which 

 man-eating tigers appear to be in parts of India. But man- 

 eating lions in Africa are not invariably old animals. One 

 which killed thirty -seven human beings in 1887, on the Majili 

 River, to the north-west of the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, 

 was, when at last he was killed, found to be an animal in the 

 prime of life ; whilst the celebrated man-eaters of the Tsavo 

 River, in East Africa, were also apparently strong, healthy 

 animals. These two man-eating lions caused such consterna- 

 tion amongst the Indian workmen on the Uganda Railway 

 that the work of construction was considerably retarded, the 

 helpless coolies refusing to remain any longer in a country 

 where they were liable to be eaten on any night by a man- 

 eating lion. Both these lions were at last shot by one of the 

 engineers on the railway (Mr. J. H. Patterson), but not 

 before they had killed and devoured twenty-eight Indian 

 coolies and an unknown number of native Africans. 



THE TIGER 



TIGERS are the " type animal " of Asia. They are found nowhere else. Lions were inhab- 

 itants, even in historic times, of Europe, and are still common on the Euphrates and in parts 

 of Persia, just as they were when the Assyrian kings shot them with arrows from their hunting- 

 chariots. They survived in Greece far later than the days when story says that Hercules slew 

 the Nemean lion in the Peloponnesus, for the baggage-animals of Xerxes' army of invasion were 

 attacked by lions near Mount Athos. But the tiger never comes, and never did come in historic 

 times, nearer to Europe than 

 the Caucasian side of the 

 Caspian Sea. On the other 

 hand, they range very far 

 north. All our tiger-lore is 

 Indian. There is scarcely a 

 story of tigers to be found 

 in English books of sport 

 which deals with the animal 

 north of the line of the 

 Himalaya. These Chinese 

 northern tigers and the 

 Siberian tigers are far larger 

 than those of India. They 

 have long woolly coats, in 

 order to resist the cold. 

 Their skins are brought to 

 market in hundreds every 

 year to the great fur-sales. 

 But the animals themselves 

 we never see. The present 

 writer was informed by a 

 friend that in the Amur TAiihan 



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