MAJESTIC APPEARANCE. 
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African traveller, naturalist, and sportsman, who 
spent a considerable time in the Caffir country, 
££ that during tbe great migration of the Dutch 
Boers from the Cape Colony to their present settle¬ 
ment, no fewer then 380 lions were killed by 
them. 55 
Harris, also, testifies to the great number of 
lions in the country where he was then shoot¬ 
ing, in a letter to Colonel Delamaine, an equally 
enthusiastic and renowned sportsman as himself. 
He says :— ££ They are nearly as numerous as the 
rhinoceros,^ and used to visit our waggons by twos 
and threes by daylight, and every night they made 
a descent on our sheep and oxen, frequently killing 
them, and generally driving them out of the thorn 
fence into the wilderness to a distance of miles. 55 
The lion—I here speak of the common type—is 
a strikingly bold and majestic-looking animal; his 
large and shaggy mane, which he can erect at plea¬ 
sure, surrounding his awful front. His huge eye¬ 
brows, his round and fiery eye-balls, which, upon 
the least irritation, seem to glow with peculiar 
lustre, together with the formidable. appearance of 
his fangs, exhibit a picture of terrific grandeur, 
which no words can describe. 
One must not, however, judge of the animal from 
the specimens usually exhibited in menageries; for 
though these frequently equal in bulk those found 
* Of which animals, as he had previously informed his friend, 
<e he on one occasion, when bringing to his bivouac (a distance of 
about a mile) the head of a koodoo shot on the preceding day, 
encountered no fewer than twenty-two, and was necessitated to shoot 
three of them to clear the way.” 
