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wounded it. At another time a hunter, while stalking a rhinoceros, suddenly- 
discovered that a lion was stalking him, so that he was compelled to change 
his game. The lion is so fearful of a trap that it will not attack horses or 
cattle while these are^ tied. Hence it first tries by its roarings and odor to 
get up a stampede, and if successful, then pursues and captures its prey. A 
very striking instance of this wariness of the lion was furnished in the case of 
a horse which, having thrown its rider and run away, was caught by the bridle 
on the limb of a tree. Two days afterwards, the hunters found the horse 
uninjured, although it had had the constant companionship of quite a party 
of lions. Three lions were once watched while they hunted a wounded buffalo, 
which they finally succeeded in “pulling down,” biting always at the withers. 
The hunters appeared as the 
lions were beginning their 
feast, and shooting one of the 
lions a second betook itself 
to precipitate flight, while the 
third one persisted in continu¬ 
ing the feast until it fell a 
victim to such a lack of pru¬ 
dence. On the other hand, 
the lion is not unfrequently 
killed by the buffalo. On one 
occasion a lion attempted to 
secure a buffalo calf, but the 
cow protected it both valiantly 
and successfully, terminating 
the contest by tearing the lion 
to pieces with her horns. 
The lion has a more than 
decent respect for the ele¬ 
phant and rhinoceros, and 
leaves any attacks upon them 
to other foes. In some parts of 
Africa the man-eating lion is 
regarded (not sardonically) 
as the walking tenement 
of the souls of chiefs deceased. This unfortunate belief adds yet more 
to the paralysis which affects the natives when a man-eater is ravaging 
their villages. The terrible destruction of life in southern Africa is shown by 
the Government Reports for a single year. There were lost, in a single year, 
forty-six persons by elephants, eight hundred and nineteen by lions, two hundred 
and ten by leopards, eighty-five by bears, five hundred and sixty-four by wolves 
and twenty-four by hyenas. On the other hand, the slaughter of animals was as 
follows: Thirty-two elephants, fifteen hundred and seventy-nine lions, thirty-five 
hundred and fifty-nine leopards, thirteen hundred and seventy-four bears, forty- 
nine hundred and twenty-four wolves and fourteen hundred and seventeen 
hyenas. 
The Tiger (Felis tigris) is Asiatic in its habitat, and is there monarch of 
all he surveys, unless it be the buffalo and the elephant. The Asiatic lion is 
LION ATTACKING A GIRAFFE. 
