AN ENORMOUS LION. 9 1 



those days about twenty miles distant. It was 

 scaled both by some officials of our commissariat 

 department, and by a butcher and baker of the 

 place, both of whom made the weight the same. 

 Our host testified to the correctness of the narrator's 

 statement. My friends, Captain Lucas and Captain 

 Hodson, both officers of the Hottentot Mounted 

 Rifles, confirmed the above from the statement of 

 unprejudiced witnesses, who had been present when 

 the grand beast was weighed. In the truth of the 

 great weight of this grand old monarch of beasts I 

 thoroughly believe. 



