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THE LION. 
wingless bird is certainly more remarkable 
than a maneless lion. Where did you say 
they were found V* 
“In Guzerat or Goojerat: the name is 
spelt in both ways. Get the atlas, Sidney, an d 
look on the west side of the peninsula of 
Hindostan, and you will see the peninsula 
of Gujerat, bounded on the east side by 
the Gulf of Cambay, and on the other by 
the Gulf of Cutch and the great Western 
Runn. Do you see Ahmedabad ?” 
“Yes, here it is, between two rivers 
which empty into the Gulf of Cambay. 
One is the Mhye, and the other does not 
seem to have any name on the map.” 
“The other is the Subbermutty; and it 
is upon this that the maneless lion has been 
principally found, though it has been taken 
upon the borders of Cutch. It is curious 
that scarcely any of the natives of the coun¬ 
try had ever seen or heard of the animals, 
though they were so numerous that Captain 
Smee killed eleven in a month’s time. 
Their cattle had often been carried off, but 
they had always attributed their destruction 
to tigers,—which, Captain Smee says, are 
not found in the peninsula. The few herds- 
