The Cat Tribe 



donkeys, oxen, sheep, goats, and pigs which were killed by lions, and it soon mounted up to 

 over 200 head. During the same time several white men were also mauled by lions, and one 

 unfortunate man named Teale was dragged from beneath the cart, where he was sleeping by 

 the side of a native driver, and at once killed and eaten. Several of the horses were killed 

 inside rough shelters serving as stables. In the following year (1891) over 100 pigs were 

 killed in one night by a single lioness. These pigs were in a series of pens, separated one 

 from another, but all under one low thatched roof. The lioness forced her way in between two 

 poles, and apparently was unable, after having satisfied her hunger, to find her way out again, 

 and, becoming angry and frightened, wandered backwards and forwards through the pens, 

 killing almost all the pigs, each one with a bite at the back of the head or neck. This 

 lioness, which had only eaten portions of two young pigs, made her escape before daylight, but 

 was killed with a set gun the next night by the owner of the pigs. 



When lions grow old, they are always liable to become man-eaters. Finding their strength 

 failing them, and being no longer able to hunt and pull down large antelopes or zebras, they 

 are driven by hunger to killing small animals, such as porcupines, and even tortoises, or they 

 may visit a native village and catch a goat, or kill a child or woman going for water ; and 

 finding a human being a very easy animal to catch and kill, an old lion which has once tasted 

 human flesh will in all probability continue to be a man-eater until he is killed. On this 

 subject, in his "Missionary Travels," Dr. Livingstone says: "A man-eater is invariably an old 

 lion ; and when he overcomes his fear of man so far as to come to villages for goats, the 

 people remark, ' His teeth are worn ; he will soon kill men/ They at once acknowledge the 

 necessity of instant action, and turn out to kill him." It is the promptness with which 

 measures are taken by the greater part of the natives of Southern Africa to put an end to 



Photo ly Ottomar Anschiit:] 



TIGRESS. 



Were the grass seen here the normal height of that in the Indian jungles, the upright lines uld harmonise with the stripes, and r, 



tiger almost invisible. 



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