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helpless brute, when it suddenly sprang upon him and treated him as a well- 
trained terrier does a victimized rat or cat. The doctor found that his sole 
defence lay in simulating the limpness and unresistingness of death until an 
attendant could safely get a shot at the lion without imperilling his master. 
When this happened, the lion deserted Livingstone and bit through the thigh 
of his fresh assailant, and a second attendant coming to the rescue was seized 
by the shoulder and saved from being horribly maimed and mangled only by 
the wounds of the lion opportunely proving fatal at that very moment. Dr. 
Livingstone found that he had received eleven bites in his arm and was, there- 
LION SEIZING A BUFFALO. 
fore, well-qualified to report from personal experience as well as with the weight 
of his profession as a missionary, upon the effects of the lion's bite. He says 
that the lion ’s bite is poisonous and resembles a gunshot wound. Parker Gill- 
more, whose books always have interest, tells of finding a lion and lioness 
temporarily occupying a native’s hut while the owner was absent, and how he 
himself retired quickly, noiselessly, precipitately and without desire to disturb the 
fierce beasts in their peaceful slumbers and dreams which, doubtless, dwelt upon 
victories yet to be won. Upon another occasion he came suddenly upon a 
sleeping lion , and while his majesty, aroused by the intrusion, was taking a 
preparatory yawn before collecting his energies, Gillmore shot and mortally 
