THE WORLD S WONDERS. 



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Most of the feats of strength which Livingstone saw performed 

 'by lions, such as the taking away an ox, etc., were not by carry- 

 ing, but by dragging the carcass along the ground. They will 

 spring, on some occasions, on to the hind-quarters of a horse, 



but no one has ever seen them on the withers of a giraffe. They 

 do not mount on the hind-quarters of an eland even, but try to 

 tear it down with their claws. 



