A LION SHOT. 173 
Ramaqueban, when a lion approached his horse quite 
close. He yelled, and turned his horse. The lion 
retreated, but soon stopped and seemed inclined to 
renew the attack. He dismounted and shot the lion 
at, he says, about 30 yards. He then saw another lion 
creeping towards him — both ' mannetjes ' (males) — 
and he (Van Roozen) made off. After his return he 
and I rode back together to the dead lion, which we 
found, and proceeded to skin. He was a yellow- 
maned one ; Van Roozen says the black-maned one is 
quite distinct. In this the mane was short, the teeth 
very large and discoloured, but perfect, and the lion 
apparently in his prime, though he must have been 
hungry, as he was in poor condition. Van Roozen 
was alone when it happened, and he probably wanted 
to get the horse. 
" Van Roozen tells me of an Englishman, named 
Brown, who was killed by a lion on the Crocodile 
River. One day this man and his son had found 
and taken three cubs, and the old lion came up 
to them. The son wanted to fire, but the father 
forbade him, and threw one cub down, which the old 
one took away, and they took the others to the 
waggon. The day following the old man took his 
gun, and said he was going after ostriches. He had 
one young Kafir boy with him. It seems he had gone 
to the place where the lions were, and had met the 
old one, which he fired at, but did not kill upon the 
spot — though I believe it was found dead afterwards. 
It had torn the flesh off one of his arms and both his 
legs, but he had taken his gun, gone to a hole where 
