CHAPTER II 



THE FLESH-EATERS 

 By H. A. BRYDEN 



THE LION 



LIONS are still to be found in very many parts of 

 Africa, from Abyssinia and the confines of Algeria 

 to the Transvaal Colony. In 1899, just before the 

 Boer War broke out, one of these animals was killed 

 at Springs, within a dozen miles of Johannesburg, 

 and some numbers are still to be heard of in the 

 north-east and east of the colony. A few still linger 

 in British Bechuanaland ; their range may be said to 

 extend even farther south. In 1893, for instance, 



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