34 Notes on South African Hunting, 
Lions. 
the bo3^s to cut up a quagga that had been shot 
the night before. They got near to where he was 
lying, and then, seeing fresh lion spoor about, 
turned back to tell us. I think we were lazy 
that morning ; any way we sent them off again 
to see if the lion was on the quagga, and if he 
was, to come back and tell us. They went, 
but the lion saw them before they did him, and 
waddled off into the bush with half our quagga 
inside him. So we missed that one. 
Lions, like most, if not all, wild animals, never 
attack unless wounded or hungry. They are a 
great nuisance at night roundthe wagons, as oxen 
and horses cannot bear the smell of them and 
break loose, when of course the lion has his 
evening meal. I have known a lion at night 
come and literally stand over a sleeping native 
and walk away again. The native’s face in the 
morning when he saw the spoor was expressive. 
One day, some years ago, a gentleman of my 
acquaintance was walking up a path at night, 
and seeing what he thought was some small 
animal in the path before him, took up a stone 
and threw it at him. Fortunately for him the 
animal took it kindly, and my friend came back 
