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fled to the plain, but with a severe wound in the 
hough. The next day a regular hunting party, with 
a considerable force of elephants, was mustered, and 
when the line was formed, the half hamstrung ele- 
phant, trembling with anxiety, and giving numerous 
proofs of her extreme uneasiness, was yet so keen as 
to be always her whole length before the others in 
the clearing of the jungle*. Before night three lions 
were killed, and thus, for the first time, the presence 
of the lion in India was satisfactorily established. 
The Asiatic lion is of a uniform yellow colour. 
The mane, which is more scanty than in the African 
variety, is also entirely yellow. In physiognomy as 
well as character they seem to* agree, but the Asiatic 
is rather the smaller of the two. 
The distinctness of the two varieties may be in- 
ferred from this circumstance, that a lioness of the 
Asiatic breed, which was in Exeter ’Change, was 
frequently offered to the African lion, which is also 
kept there, and was constantly refused, while his at- 
tachment still remains unaltered for the lioness of 
his own country in the same menagerie, which has 
produced several litters, the fruits of their inter- 
course. Major Smith has known two other instances 
of the same kind. 
* This was probably from a desire of vengeance in the sagacious 
animal, which continued lame, and was afterwards sold at a con- 
siderable loss. 
