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wild man is marvellous. A European must have died of the 

 wounds, or the consequent fever. The native, it appeared, had 

 stopped behind, as we came through the pass, to mend his 

 sandal, and, taking a short cut to rejoin us, had chanced upon 

 the wounded lion, which first seized him by the large back 

 muscles of the thigh, and on his striking him over the head 

 with his fist, shifted his grip to the arm, which was munched 

 up to the elbow, though no bones were broken. I have 

 before said, lions do not attack men in daylight without strong 

 cause. I opened this one, and found the stomach and nearly 

 the whole of the intestines absolutely empty ! The beast was 

 starving he had evidently bled all night, and was very weak, 

 a fact which may account for the man's getting off easier than 

 one would expect. 



My journey with Livingstone to Lake 'Ngami, and my sub- 

 sequent visit to the Zambesi in the same company, have been 

 fully described by the Doctor himself, and though on both oc- 

 casions I had to kill game for the camp, they do not fall within 

 the category of shooting expeditions. They were made with other 

 ends in view, and would be out of place in a narrative of this 

 kind ; it will be sufficient to say we were successful in introducing 

 two new antelopes 1 the 'Nakong and the Leche. The latter, 

 of a dark fawn-colour, with horns annulated and curved like 

 the waterbuck's, only smaller, was found on the flats between 

 the shallow lake Kamadou and the Sesheke plains, west of 

 the Zambesi, the former about Lake 'Ngami, and in the marshy 

 land and pools of one of its affluents, the Teoge River. It 

 is a veritable swamp-liver, about the size of a goat, with long, 

 brownish hair, and horns resembling those of the koodoo in 

 miniature. The abnormal elongation of its hoof enables it to 

 skim over the surface of morasses into which other antelopes 

 would sink. I have one, which I have just measured, very 

 nearly four inches long if it were in the ratio of the animal's size, 



1 We heard of a third antelope which was said to burrow, but we never 

 saw it. Has any later traveller anything to say about it ? or is it a myth ? 

 The Kafirs were precise enough in their description. 



