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CHAPTER V. 



INFLUENCE OF THE HUMAN EYE UPON THE LION DIEDRICH 

 Mi'lLLER GERT SCHEPElt'S ENCOUNTER WITH A LION MOF- 

 FATT POWER OF THE HUMAN VOICE OVER THE MONARCH OF 

 BEASTS THE ALGERIAN ARABS GORDON GUMMING IN DANGER 

 THE LION AFRAID OF RUSES CUNNING OF THE LION ILLUS- 

 TRATIONS FROM GREEN, GUMMING, MOFFATT. 



IF the human eye be intently fixed on the lion, 

 it is believed to have great influence on him. 

 Numerous instances, indeed, are on record where, 

 owing to a man having determinedly looked the 



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beast in the face, he has not only been deterred 

 from attacking him, but has become so cowed as 

 to have slunk away with his tail between his legs. 



Diedrich Miiller, one of the most intrepid and 

 successful of South African Nirnrods, for example, 

 was one day hunting alone in the " weldt," when 

 he suddenly came upon a lion, which, so far from 

 giving way to him, seemed disposed, from 1 he angry 

 attitude it assumed, to dispute with him the 

 dominion of the desert. Diedrich instant Iv alighted, 

 and, confident in his unerring aim, levelled his 

 mighty roer* at the forehead of the beast, then 

 couched at some fifteen paces' distance, apparently 



* The heavy !;un in u.<c viih the culonusts. which carries a hall of 

 several ounces in weitrht. 



