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splendid specimen of a wild lion, an old animal, but in good 

 condition, with an excellent coat and a full, long, and silky 

 black mane. 



This is the largest lion it has yet been my good fortune to 

 kill, and I have given his weight and dimensions in a former 



My best koodoo 



part of this chapter. After leaving the carcase of the ox he 

 had killed, which I suppose he considered to be too near to my 

 waggon to be altogether safe, he had gone up to Mr. Johnson's 

 kraal, and, forcing his way in by separating two of the poles 

 that formed the palisade, had deliberately killed seven sheep, 

 seven goats, and one calf. These poor animals had evidently 



