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thigh. Another man, whose life I had saved before, afte
he had been tossed by a buffalo, attempted to spear the
lion while he was biting Mebalwe. He left Mebdlwe and
caught this man by the shoulder; but at that moment the
bullets he had received took effect, and he fell down dead.
The whole was the work of a few moments, and must have
been his paroxysm of dying rage. In order to take out the
charm from him, the Bakatla, on the following day, made a
huge bonfire over the carcass, which was declared to be
the largest lion they had ever seen. Besides crunching the
bone into splinters, he left eleven teeth wounds on the upper
part of my arm. A wound from this animal’s tooth resembles
a gunshot wound. It is generally followed by a great deal
of sloughing and discharge, and pains are felt in the part
periodically ever after. I had on a tartan jacket on the
occasion, and I believe that it wiped off all the virus from
the teeth that pierced the flesh; for my two companions in
this affray have both suffered from the peculiar pains, while
I have escaped with only the inconvenience of a false joint in
my limb.”

A Thrilling Professor Lichtenstein, in his “Travels” gives a
Experience. thrilling story of a Boer’s adventure with a lion,
which he had from the lips of the Boer himself. “It is now,”
said the colonist, “more than two years since, in the very
place where we siand, I ventured to take one of the most
daring shots that ever was hazarded. My wife was sitting
within the house near the door, the children were playing
about her, and I was without, near the house, busied in
doing something to a waggon, when suddenly, though it
was mid-day, an enormous lion appeared, came up and laid

‘himself quietly down in the shade upon the very threshold
of the door. My wife, either frozen with fear, or aware of
the danger of attempting to fly, remained motionless in her
place, while the children took refuge in her arms. The cry
they uttered attracted my attention, and I hastened towards