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for the travellers, the oven was too hot for the lions, and although 

 they growled and snarled over it all night, they dared not attack 

 it, and retired in the morning. The chief food of the people 

 who inhahit these huts consisted of locusts and roots, for their 

 cattle were gone, they could not make fences wherein to inclose 

 a patch of cultivated ground, the lions had driven away the 

 smaller game, and the few weapons which had escaped Mosele- 

 katze were insufficient for the slaughter of the laiger and more 

 powerful animals. 



