CHAPTER IV. 



pen jof Stfuijj Africa, 



THE lion of South Africa, or the dog-nosed lion, differs 

 considerably from the lion of Northern Africa in its 

 physical characteristics and its habits, as well as in its 

 size, strength, and courage; and the following anecdotes 

 will serve to exhibit some of these characteristics. 



"When," says Livingstone, "a lion is met in the 

 daytime, a circumstance by no means infrequent to 

 travellers in these parts, if preconceived notions do not 

 lead them to expect something very ' noble ' or ' majes- 

 tic/ they will see merely an animal, somewhat larger 

 than the biggest dog they ever saw, and partaking very 

 strongly of the canine features. The face is not much 

 like the usual drawings of a lion, the nose being 

 prolonged like a dog's ; not exactly such as our painters 

 make it, though they might learn better at the Zoolo- 

 gical Gardens : their ideas of majesty being usually 

 shown by making their lions' faces like old women in 

 nightcaps." 



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