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CHAPTER XII. 



NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED AND MUTILATED BY LIONS IN 

 AFRICA REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM A LION'S JAWS MIGHTY 

 NIMRODS PIET'S ADVENTURE WITH A LION DANGERS OF THE 

 TRAVELLER IN AFRICA WONDERFUL ESCAPE OF A NATIVE 

 FROM A LION MOFFATT THE MISSIONARY IN JEOPARDY 

 BARBARITIES OF THE MATABILE VARIOUS ADVENTURES WITH 

 LIONS THE PRISONERS. 



IN South Africa, though many individuals are 

 annually killed by lions, they bear no propor- 

 tion to the number of the wounded. One would 

 have supposed when such powerful and ferocious 

 animals once had a poor fellow in his power 

 that it was all over with him ; but this is not 

 the case, for probably three out of four of those he 

 seizes escape with life, though often, it is true, 

 sadly mutilated. Why or wherefore this happens it 

 is not for me to say, but that such is the fact 

 is indisputable ! My statement is moreover, in 

 degree, evidenced by the numerous individuals 

 the traveller meets who have been in the clutches of, 

 and maltreated, by the beast. 



And many have had narrow escapes from lions, 

 I myself among the rest. The circumstances were 

 these. One day, when eating my humble dinner, 1 



