THE LION KILLER. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE LION — HIS EDUCATION, TEMPERAMENT AND HABITS. 



In the month of January, 1848, I met at Paris Adulphe 

 Delegorgue, the hunter and naturalist, who had passed seven 

 years of his life among the Caffres and Amazoulians, of 

 South Africa, living on steaks of hippopotamus and cotelettes 

 of rhinoceros. 



I cannot describe the pleasure of this encounter, and not 

 content with having read the voyages of my brother hunter, 

 I pressed him with a thousand questions about his hunting 

 adventures, and above all, about the lion of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. I was so much struck with the slight analogy that 

 exists between this animal and that of Algiers, that 1 imme- 

 diately resolved to publish what I had learned concerning 

 the ways and habits of the latter during many years of 

 frequent intercourse with him. 



Every one knows that the lion belongs to the feline race of 

 animals, and yet strange to say, the most eminent natural- 



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