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cravings of appetite, the lion, when once satiated, 
ceases to be an enemy. Hence very different ac- 
counts are given by travellers of the generosity or 
cruelty of its nature, which result, in all probability, 
from the difference in time and circumstances, or 
degree of hunger, which the individual experienced 
when the observations were made upon it. There 
are certainly many instances of a traveller having 
met with a lion in the forest during day. 
Who glared upon him, and went surly by. 
Without annoying him : 
But when urged by want, this tremendous animal 
is as fearless as he is powerful ; and in a state of con- 
finement, or when not exposed to the extremity of 
hunger, generally exhibits tokens of a more tender 
feeling than is to be met with in the tiger, and most 
of the felinm. 
In the instances quoted from Mr. Park and Von 
Wyk, it seems probable, that the animals were not 
much pressed by hunger, and were not prowling 
about for prey, but were led into the situations in 
which they are described accidentally, or their actions 
would have been quicker and more determined. 
The perseverance of this animal, when bent upon 
destruction, is exemplified in the case of a Hottentot, 
who was endeavouring to drive his master’s cattle 
into a pool of water, enclosed between two ridges of 
rock, when he espied a huge lion couching in the 
midst of the pool. Terrified at the unexpected sight 
of such a beast, which seemed to have its eyes fixed 
