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More Lion-Hunting Experiences that two lions were crouching among the reeds below.All the wagons immediately drew up on an ascent opposite the place where they lay, with their wheels firmly chained, lest the roaring or appearing of the lions should terrify the oxen and make them run off with the wagons, which frequently happens on such occasions.Thirteen men then drew up, about fifty yards from ih(t LIONESS rHOTOGRArHIil) AT A DISTAN'CE OF ONLY ABOUT THREE YARDS lions, with their loaded muskets ; and such as were only to be spectators stood upon a heap ot rocks, about fifty yards beyond them, guarded by three armed men, lest the lions should not be wounded, or only slightly, and be able to rush upon us.When all this was in readiness, the men below poured a volley of bullets towards the animals, when one of them, the male, made off seemingly slightly wounded ; but the other was disabled, so that it 3^7 With Flashlight and Rifle remained in the same position.The dogs ran towards her, making a great noise, but ventured no nearer than five or six yards.On the second fire she was shot dead.A bullet was found under the skin, which she must have received long before, as the wound was completely healed.She had received many wounds froni our people, especially a severe one in the mouth."Thus was carried out a lion-hunt in South Africa a hundred years ago.Elsewhere the missionary enlarged frequently on the habits and customs of lions -from hearsay, naturally -and states, amongst other things, that a Hon will carry away an ox upon his back and a sheep in his mouth.He bases this statement upon the difference in the weights of the two animals.If it must be admitted that the killing of lions in those days, with the primitive guns then in use, was a much more dangerous undertaking than it is in these days of perfected rifles, there is yet no reason to be surprised that these animals were so quickly exterminated wherever the colonists settled down.We have a picture presented to us here of a body of Europeans with about thirteen muskets setting out cautiously upon their warlike enter- prise.How far less courage is involved in this kind of thing than in the hunting of lions with sword and spear, as was the custom of the natives in those days.The lion's knell had sounded already then.Now he is disappearing quickly.Pere Guilleme, a missionary, who was stationed for many years at Tanganyika, tells me that the "white fathers" there have killed thirty-seven lions in the course of only four years-for the most part by the -.88With Flashlight and Rifle ŝcurry back to their nearest hiding-place.Should this be an ant-hill, and we have the patience to wait an hour or two in hiding, we shall first see one little head, then several, peer out of the holes of their clay fortress, which soon is alive again with their activity.Now playing and romping, now assuring themselves of their safety, the little sprites run round and round the ant-hill.Squirrels behave in a similar way, though not in large numbers -alone always, or in pairs.Sometimes ichneumons are found in company with rock-badgers {Procai'ia) which, in like manner, often take up their abode in ant-hills.More frequently, how- ever, they are to be found in the rocky districts of the hills, high up or low down, according to the season of Edentate 1 1 5. J Ant-bear, Otyctc/vpi/s wcrthc/i, Mtsch.* Species discovered by C. C .Schillings.

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