q^QjI: the lion. 



forced him to quit his prey, in order to make a prize 

 of it themselves ; and found that he had had the sa^ 

 gacity to take out the Buifalo's large and unwieldy 

 entrails, in order to be able the easier to make off 

 with the fleshy and more eatable part of the carcase. 

 And as soon as he saw, from the skirts of the wood, 

 that the Hottentots had begun to carry oif the flesh 

 to the ^vagaon, he frequently peeped out upon 

 them, probably with no little mortification. 



"^ The Lion's strength, however, is said not to 

 be sufficient alone to get the better of so large and 

 strong an animal as the Bufi^alo : but, in order to 

 make it his prey, he is obliged to have recourse 

 both to agility and stratagem ; and stealing on the 

 Buffalo, he fastens, with both his paws, upon the 

 nostrils and mouth of the beast, and continues 

 squeezing them close together, till at length the 

 victim is strangled, wearied out, and dies. It was 

 said, that one of the colonists had had an opportu- 

 nity of seeing a transaction of this kind ; and others 

 had reason to conclude that something of this na- 

 ture had passed, from seeing Buffaloes which had 

 escaped from the clutches of Lions, and which bore 

 marks of the claws of these animals about the 

 mouth and nose. It was asserted, however, that 

 the Lion risqued his life in such attempts, especially 

 if any other Buffalo was at hand to rescue that 

 ■which was attacked ; and that a traveller had once 

 an opportunity of seeing a female Buffalo, with her 

 calf, defended by a river at her back, keep at bay^ 

 fo;- a long time^ five Lions which had partly sur- 



