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oxen, sheep, goats, and pigs which were killed by lions, and it soon mounted up to over 200 
head. During the same time several white men were also mauled by lions, and one unfortunate 
man named Teale was dragged from beneath the cart, where he was sleeping by the side of a 
native driver, and at once killed and eaten. Several of the horses were killed inside rough 
shelters serving as stables. In the following year (1891) over 100 pigs were killed in one night 
by a single lioness. These pigs were in a series of pens, separated one from another, but all 
under one low thatched roof, The lioness forced her way in between two poles, and apparently 
was unable, after having satisfied her hunger, to find her way out again, and, becoming angry 
and frightened, wandered backwards and forwards through the pens, killing almost all the pigs, 
each one with a bite at the back of the head or neck. This lioness, which had only eaten portions 
of two young pigs, made her escape before daylight, but was killed with a set gun the next night 
by the owner of the pigs. 
When lions grow old, they are always liable to become man-eaters. Finding their strength 
failing them, and being no longer able to hunt and pull down large antelopes or zebras, they are 
driven by hunger to killing smal\ animals, such as porcupines, and even tortoises, or they may 
visit a native village and catch a goat, or kill a child or woman going for water; and finding a 
human being a very easy animal to catch and kill, an old lion which has once tasted human flesh 
will in all probability continue to be a man-eater until he is killed. On this subject, in his 
“Missionary Travels,” Dr. Livingstone says: “A man-eater is invariably an old lion; and when 
he overcomes his fear of man so far as to come to villages for goats, the people remark, ‘ His 
teeth are worn; he will soon kill men.’ They at once acknowledge the necessity of instant 
action, and turn out to kill him.” It is the promptness with which measures are taken by the 
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TIGRESS 
Were the grass seen here the normal height of that in the Indian jungles, the upright lines would harmonise with the stripes, and vender che 
tiger almost invisible 
