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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 Rooyen) 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 Rooyen 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 

 Rooyen was alone when it happened, and he probably 

 wanted to get the horse. 



" Van Rooyen 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 Kaffir 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 

 buffalo wallow, used his pannikin to wash his hands 



