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quarter of an hour. In the meantime, the other 

 lions draw around him, and lie down at a respectful 

 distance. When the chief one, or leader, has had 

 his rest, he commences feeding on the abdomen 

 and breast, and after making sad havoc with these, 

 and the tit-bits of the carcass, lie will take a second 

 rest, none of the others in the interim presuming to 

 move. Having had a second gorge, he retires 

 finally from the victim. The other lions, intently 

 watching his movements, then rush on to the re- 

 mainder, and it is soon devoured. At other times, if 

 it happens to be a young lion that seizes the prey, and 

 that an older one afterwards comes up, the younger 

 at once retires until the elder has dined. " This," the 

 worthy Missionary adds, " was what Africaner called 

 'better manners than those of the Namaquas.' ' 



Lions, if captured when quite young, and treated 

 with kindness, become readily domesticated, and 

 greatly attached to their owners, whom they will 

 follow everywhere like dogs. 



On entering, one day, the temporary hut of a 

 trader, in the vicinity of Lake Xgami, I imagined I 

 saw two fiery eyeballs glancing at me from under 

 the bed, but at the time L took no further notice of 

 the circumstance. A short while afterwards, how- 

 ever, some natives made their appearance, when, to 

 my surprise, a lion, about eight or nine months old, 

 suddenly sprang forward with a growl, in making 

 a similar movement from a waggon, some little time 

 previously, the beast had the.' misfortune to tumble 

 off the vehicle, and so injured his spine as to 

 become a cripple for life. He was much attached 



