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CHAPTER V. 
INFLUENCE OF THE HUMAN EYE UPON THE LION—DIEDRICH 
MULLER—GERT SCHEPER’S ENCOUNTER WITH A LION—MOF- 
FATT—POWER OF THE HUMAN VOICE OVER THE MONARCH OF 
BEASTS—THE ALGERIAN ARABS—GORDON CUMMING IN DANGER 
—THE LION AFRAID OF RUSES*—CUNNING OF THE LION—ILLUS¬ 
TRATIONS FROM GREEN, CUMMING, MOFFATT. 
I F the human eye be intently fixed on the lion, 
it is believed to have great influence on him. 
Numerous instances, indeed, are on record where, 
owing to a man having determinedly looked the 
beast in the face, he has not only been deterred 
from attacking him, but has become so cowed as 
to have slunk away with his tail between his legs. 
Diedrich Muller, one of the most intrepid and 
successful of South African Nimrods, for example, 
was one day hunting alone in the 46 weldt,” when 
he suddenly came upon a lion, which, so far from 
giving way to him, seemed disposed, from the angry 
attitude it assumed, to dispute with him the 
dominion of the desert. Diedrich instantly alighted, 
and, confident in his unerring aim, levelled his 
mighty roer* at the forehead of the beast, then 
couched at some fifteen paces’ distance, apparently 
* The heavy gun in use with the colonists, which carries a ball of 
several ounces in weight. 
