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shortly to appear, in which, since it not impossibly will be shown 

 that your reviewer's assertions are as groundless as those he makes 

 with regard to the Ama Zooloo lions, it is needless for me to 

 enumerate them here." 



From my experience, the reviewer was right and Mr. 

 Lloyd wrong ; indeed, I can hardly imagine the well- 

 informed Andersson lending his name to any statement to 

 the contrary. I have probably, at different times, found 

 between one and two hundred animals killed by lions, and 

 I have seen at least treble that quantity of game killed by 

 hunters and broken into by lions. Among the first there 

 may have been twenty zebra, and ten cases in which some 

 of the other kinds of antelopes, gnu or water-antelope for 

 instance, were the victims, the remainder being buffaloes, 

 as in nine cases out of ten they were among those left 

 dead by the hunters. 



Among the numerous times on which I have seen 

 lions hunting by daylight, I cannot call to mind a single 

 instance when the game they were after was not buffalo, 

 and times without number I have found a herd of buffaloes 

 that I had been after all day scattered and dispersed by 

 lions during the night. 



On the other hand, I would not go so far as to say that 

 buffalo-meat is their favourite food. Were a zebra, a fat 

 rhinoceros, and a fat buffalo to be killed and left out, it is 

 probable that they would be eaten in the order in which 

 they are named. Soft succulent fat is what the lion pro- 

 bably considers most toothsome, and zebras supply this in 

 a higher degree than any other animal save the rhinoceros 

 and the hippopotamus, neither of which he is able to kill ; 

 but, on the other hand, the zebra, precisely in the way 



