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played. He crawled up close to the tracks, by 

 sneaking behind a willow clump. From behind 

 a big log he leaped and landed by the tracks. 

 There was a confusion of tracks, as though there 

 had been a struggle. 



But all this was make-believe, for his actions 

 indicated that he knew these tracks were associ- 

 ated with human scent. As there are only a 

 few known cases of lions attacking humans, 

 and these probably by mentally deranged lions, 

 this lion was probably amusing himself by anl 

 imaginary attack and fight with a dangerous 

 enemy. 



I was tracking a North Park lion when the 

 tracks showed that the lion had been suddenly 

 alarmed. He had dropped down, then crept 

 forward under cover for a look. He stood up to 

 listen, then made off at high speed. He had 

 heard or scented the lion dogs of a hunter. 

 These dogs were soon on his trail, and in follow- 

 ing his tracks I came to a place where he had 

 tried to throw the dogs off scent. 



This lion was running westerly. It had almost 

 passed a cliff when it stopped suddenly, faced 

 about, and went back along its trail for sixty orl 

 seventy feet, then leaped upon a boulder and 

 from this upon the side of the cliff perhaps eight 

 feet above its trail. From this point it made its 

 way around the cliff, climbing up some thirty or 



