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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 
