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roaring in rage about tbe camp. After an unsuccessful all-day’s lion bunt, 
Baker suddenly came upon one but ten yards distant. He sbot it in the spine 
and it rolled over and over, roaring and tearing the ground. In the morning 
Baker found the lion still unable to get away and but ten minutes’ walk from 
the camp. Even then, by a supreme effort, it rose to its feet and showed 
fight. It was found to weigh five hundred and fifty pounds, and required the 
efforts of eight men to load it upon a camel. 
A man and a boy were sitting with their legs hanging over a bank when 
a lion approached beneath, and seizing the man’s legs dragged him down and 
made off with him—which act serves to illustrate the extreme boldness the 
king of beasts sometimes exhibits in contradistinction with the cowardice with 
which he has been charged. 
One trustworthy traveller tells of riding up to a lion in the spirit of mere 
bravado, and by shooting his pistol above its head, driving the lion away as if 
it were a patient ass, or a much-abused ox. Naturally he came to the conclu¬ 
sion that the lion is neither ferocious nor noble. On the other hand, Living¬ 
stone, having shot one of several lions which were attacking the herds, and 
believing that the creature was powerless because in the throes of death, had 
an experience more thrilling than desirable. He approached the seemingly- 
