30 DAYS AND NIGHTS BY THE DESERT. 



" This was a very old lion, and his hide was 

 scarcely worth the charge that killed him, but it is 

 always these aged wretches, brutes worn out in 

 body by the accumulation of years, and soured in 

 temper by disappointments, that take to man-eating ; 

 the reason being that they have not the patience or 

 agility to stalk with success the suspicious and wary 

 wild game, so, to avoid starvation, prey upon the 

 most helpless of all animals man." 



VULTURES. 



