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THE LION, 
eight villagers, and clone much other mischi^^ 
before information of his being in the neig^' 
bourhood reached the British cantonments. 
Of the dangerous nature of lion-hunting 
India, the following narrative of a day’s sp®’'^ 
near Kaira, Bombay, in December 1811 , 
afford a sufficient illustration. 
Intelligence having been received at Kair®' 
that three lions had been discovered in a 
jungle two miles from Beereje, immediate pt®" i 
parations were made to go in quest of the®”’ 
Subsequent accounts stated that the size 
fierceness of the marauders had struck terr®^. 
into the neighbouring villages ; that six 
the natives, who had incautiously approach®^ 
their haunts, had been torn and mangled, 
left to expire in the greatest agonies ; a®^ 
that it was no longer safe for the inhabitaP*’’ 
to follow the usual occupations of husband®/' 
or to turn out their cattle, as several of th®’^ 
had been hunted down and killed. 
