MAJESTIC APPEARANCE. 



AfricaD traveller, naturalist, and sportsman, who 

 spent a considerable time in the Caffir country. 

 " that during the great migration or' the Dutch 

 Boers from the Cape Colony to their present settle- 

 ment, no fewer then 3SO lious were, killed by 

 them." 



Harris, also, testifies to the groat number of 

 lions in the country where he was then shoot- 

 ing, in a letter to Colonel Delamaine, an equally 

 enthusiastic and renowned sportsman as himself. 

 He says : " They are nearly as numerous as the 

 rhinoceros,* and used to visit our waggons by twos 

 and threes by daylight, and every night they made 

 a descent on our sheep and oxen, frequently killing 

 them, and generally driving thorn out of the thorn 

 fence into the wilderness to a distance of miles." 



The lion I here speak of the common type is 

 a strikingly bold and majestic-looking animal ; his 

 large and shaggy mane, which ho can erect at plea- 

 sure, surrounding his awful front. His huge eye- 

 brows, his round and fiery eye-balls, which, upon 

 the least irritation, seem to glow with peculiar 

 lustre, together with the formidable appearance of 

 his fangs, exhibit a picture of terrific grandeur. 

 which no words can describe. 



One must not, however, jud^o of the animal trom 

 the specimens usually exhibited in menageries; tot- 

 though these frequently equal in bulk those tound 



* Of which animals, as ho h:ul previously informed h:> friend. 

 "ho on one- occasion, when bnnc'-'K t^ hU l>i\ vni.u- ^ diitaiuv ot 

 about a milel the head of :i koodoo shot otv the pivcodini; da> . 

 encountered no fewer than twenty-two, and was r.cccsMlated to shoot 

 thive of them to clear the wav." 



