. Wild game in Zambezia . .. I^Mhm,. ^m;M- ;..afc,: I THE PORCUPINE 227 grasses and their seeds which, once having effecteda lodgment in the skin or the clothing, work theirway farther and farther in, aided thereto bycountless invisible but capable barbs. When,therefore, the beast of prey who casts a longingeye upon the easily captured porcupine retiresfrom his difficult and unsatisfactory feast, hedoes so with his paws and lips full of quillswhich defy all attempts at removal. After a time,of course, inflammation is succeeded by sup-puration, and not infrequently death from star-vation ensues
. Wild game in Zambezia . .. I^Mhm,. ^m;M- ;..afc,: I THE PORCUPINE 227 grasses and their seeds which, once having effecteda lodgment in the skin or the clothing, work theirway farther and farther in, aided thereto bycountless invisible but capable barbs. When,therefore, the beast of prey who casts a longingeye upon the easily captured porcupine retiresfrom his difficult and unsatisfactory feast, hedoes so with his paws and lips full of quillswhich defy all attempts at removal. After a time,of course, inflammation is succeeded by sup-puration, and not infrequently death from star-vation ensues as the natural result of the wretchedbeasts inability from these causes to get aboutand obtain a livelihood. I remember some yearsago at Quelimane a lion, in a state of the mostpitiable emaciation, was washed down the Qua-Qua River, its fore-paws and lips containing anumber of porcupines quills which had effectedan immovable lodgment in the flesh. It wasevident that in a condition of great feebleness theluckless beast had attempted
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