Wild beasts and their ways : reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America . ong lions, to huntin company. Mr. Oswell in South Africa had a peculiar exampleof this when in a days hunting his friend Major Vardon hadwounded a bull buffalo, which had retreated within the two hunters carefully followed the blood-track, but after a shortadvance they were startled by a succession of loud roars, whichbetokened lions close at hand. There could be little doubt thatthe wounded buffalo had been attacked; therefore, with properprecaution, they warily approached the spot, until the excitings
Wild beasts and their ways : reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America . ong lions, to huntin company. Mr. Oswell in South Africa had a peculiar exampleof this when in a days hunting his friend Major Vardon hadwounded a bull buffalo, which had retreated within the two hunters carefully followed the blood-track, but after a shortadvance they were startled by a succession of loud roars, whichbetokened lions close at hand. There could be little doubt thatthe wounded buffalo had been attacked; therefore, with properprecaution, they warily approached the spot, until the excitingscene presented itself suddenly on the other side of a large fallentree, which happily concealed the approach of the two companions. Three lions were engaged in a life-and-death combat with thegallant old bull, who made a desperate defence, first knocking overone of his enemies, then boring another to the ground, and ex-hibiting a strength which appeared sufficient to defeat the com- 1 A tiger possesses the power to deliver a tremendous blow, but it seldomexercises this THE LION 183 bination Suddenly the buffalo fell dead; this was the result ofthe original wound as the rifle bullet had passed through the The lions were not aware of this, and a ^n^J^Sselves commenced after their imagined victory. One huge beastr ared to half its full height and placed its fore paws upon thehndv of the prostrate buffalo, while at the head and the hind-Juarter an ingry lion clutched the dead body in *? .pr^gnaws and growled at the possessor of the centre. This formed aSand picture within only a few yards distance, but a couple offhote from eTther rifle stretched two lions rolling upon the ground,££££«£XrtW at the nnexpected reports, bounded mto thethick covert and disappeared. Bavarian A very good sportsman named Johann Schmidt, a Bavarianwho died in my service when in Africa, killed two lions in thelet of tta IdnTa giraffe. I saw the skeletons of *• ™5£the bed of the river Roya
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