42 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
greater part of the natives of Southern Africa to put an end to 
any lion which may take to eating men that prevents these 
animals as a rule from becoming the formidable pests which 
man-eating tigers appear to be in parts of India. But man- 
eating lions in Africa are not invariably old animals. One 
which killed thirty-seven human beings in 1887, on the Majili 
River, to the north-west of the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, 
was, when at last he was killed, found to be an animal in the 
prime of life; whilst the celebrated man-eaters of the Tsavo 
River, in East Africa, were also apparently strong, healthy 
animals. These two man-eating lions caused such consterna- 
tion amongst the Indian workmen on the Uganda Railway 
that the work of construction was considerably retarded, the 
helpless coolies refusing to remain any longer in a country 
where they were liable to be eaten on any night by a man- 
eating lion. Both these lions were at last shot by one of the 
engineers on the railway (Mr. J. H. Patterson), but not 
Photo by L. Medland, F.Z.8., North Finchley before they had killed and devoured twenty-eight Indian 
TIGER CUB coolies and an unknown number of native Africans. § 
Note the great development of the legs 
and paws THE TIGER 
TIGERS are the “type animal” of Asia. They are found nowhere else. Lions were inhab- 
itants, even in historic times, of Europe, and are still common on the Euphrates and in parts 
of Persia, just as they were when the Assyrian kings shot them with arrows from their hunting* 
chariots. They survived in Greece far later than the days when story says that Hercules slew 
the Nemean lion in the Peloponnesus, for the baggage-animals of Xerxes’ army of invasion were 
attacked by lions near Mount Athos. But the tiger never comes, and never did come in historic 
times, nearer to Europe than 
the Caucasian side of the 
Caspian Sea. On the other 
hand, they range very far 
north. All our tiger-lore is 
Indian. There is scarcely a 
story of tigers to be found 
in English books of sport 
which deals with the animal 
north of the line of the 
Himalaya. These Chinese 
northern tigers and_ the 
Siberian tigers are far larger 
than those of India. They 
have long woolly coats, in 
order to resist the cold. 
Their skins are brought to 
market in hundreds every 
year to the great fur-sales. 
But the animals themselves 
we never see. The present Fis by Bechet dan Bult — : 
writer was informed by a A ROYAL TIGER Pass 
friend that in the Amur This is an old Bengal Tiger. with the smooth, short coat crown in that hot climose 
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