A Buffalo wounded by Lions 
extended from opposite to the elbow of his fore 
leg to the top of his withers. This gash was 
festermg and suppurating badly—in fact, it was 
full of maggots. The birds we had seen fly from 
the stricken beast had, in all probability, been 
feeding on them. In addition to this sore, the 
buffalo had his face badly cut by the lion’s 
claws. The gash here went to the bone and 
extended from just above the nose to the base 
of his horns. In addition to these wounds his 
flanks were badly cut up and scored—I think 
probably by half or three-parts grown cubs. 
No wonder the poor brute was sick and morose ; 
he must have been in dreadful pain, and it was 
a work of charity to put him out of his misery. 
The way this beast had been attacked gave me 
a very graphic idea of the manner in which lions 
destroy a powerful animal like a buffalo. I 
should say the mode of procedure had been 
somewhat as follows. The lion, or lioness, 
jumps at the prey in the neighbourhood of the 
shoulder, holding on with the claws to the 
opposite side; with the claws of the other front 
leg it seizes the nose of the prey, which it pulls 
towards itself, keeping its own hind feet on the 
ground during the struggle. It stands to reason 
when the beast’s neck is bent much to one side 
that not only can they not see where they are 
going, but that in a rough boggy country such 
as this may be it is only a question of a few 
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