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provocation, and a transport rider named Horn 

 was attacked by one in North- West Rhodesia. 

 The Indian lions of Kathiawar have claimed 

 few victims because they are rarely molested, 

 but Major Carnegy was killed by one of them 

 during a shoot organised for the Governor of 

 Bombay. 



There have been some extraordinary escapes 

 from lions. In some of these cases the lion 

 gave its victim one bite and then dropped him. 

 Captain A. Saunders had a stroke of luck in 

 this way, for a lion, after seizing him and 

 carrying him some distance, suddenly let him 

 drop, for no accountable reason, and then 

 walked away, leaving him only a little damaged 

 by the encounter. Lieutenant Molony, R.A., 

 had an equally wonderful escape from a lion, 

 though subsequently he fell fighting in Uganda. 

 He had wounded a lion, which charged him 

 and knocked him down. He lay on the ground, 

 face downwards, and, shielding his head with 

 his arms as best he could, waiting for the end ; 

 but the lion just gave him one bite in the back 

 and moved off. It is certainly remarkable that 

 Selous, who must, in the course of his long 

 African experience, which began when most 

 of my generation were at school, and few 

 of the next were born, have shot scores of 

 lions, was never damaged by one, though, as 

 already related, he was all but knocked out of 



