ROVING IN DAYLIGHT 
All this happened in the daytime, and hundreds of instances 
might be given of their being out and busily hunting in broad 
daylight. Among the imaginative absurdities which Buffon 
wove into what he supposed was a biography of this animal, 
and which still linger in popular books, was one that the lion’s 
sight is poor, and that he is blinded by sunlight. A man who 
trusted to this for safety would be as insecure as one who rested 
upon the ‘‘power”’ of his own eye to outstare the big cat. No 
animal has its eyes better set for seeing what is going on than 
this one; and there is every evidence that its vision is both 
far-sighted and accurate in definition. 
One is tempted to think the Lord must have watched over 
the noble missionary Livingstone, as He did over Daniel, when 
we read his assertion that he never felt the least alarm as to 
lions in either daylight or 
moonlight, for no one since 
has had such confidence. A. 
H. Neumann,”* who had an am 
astonishing hunting career Bones oF A Lion’s TOE. 
among the game of central Showing the great tendon by which the claw 
Africa in 1894-1895, tells us is unsheathed and held down when used. 
how he shot two lionesses at the carcasses of some zebras 
killed the day before. It was a hot sunny midday, and he 
had dreaded the task of taking off their hides. ‘‘But before 
skinning them,” he writes, ‘‘I looked across the open plain 
below us; and there on the far side, skirting just inside the 
scattered bush, I saw a whole troop of lions, led by a grand 
old male, the rest either females or immature males, evidently 
coming from the zebra carcasses. I counted up to ten, and 
then before I had finished they got mixed up among the bushes; 
but I am certain there were at the very least (to be quite on 
the safe side) three more, which, with my two, would make 
fifteen all together.” 
This incident, confirmed by a vast experience elsewhere, 
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