Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . y habits which he is destined to pursue. Gombining in compara-tively small compass the qualities of power and agility, he is enabled, bymeans of the tremendous machinery with which nature has gifted him,easily to overcome and destroy almost every beast of the forest, howeversuperior to him in weight and stature. THRILLING ADVENTURES IN AFRICA. 41 Though considerably under four feet in heigh
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . y habits which he is destined to pursue. Gombining in compara-tively small compass the qualities of power and agility, he is enabled, bymeans of the tremendous machinery with which nature has gifted him,easily to overcome and destroy almost every beast of the forest, howeversuperior to him in weight and stature. THRILLING ADVENTURES IN AFRICA. 41 Though considerably under four feet in height, he has little difficultyin dashing to the ground and overcoming the lofty and apparently pow-erful giraffe, whose head towers above the trees of the forest, and whoseskin is nearly an inch in thickness. The lion is the constant attendant ofthe vast herds of buffaloes which frequent the interminable forests of theinterior; and a full-grown one, so long as his teeth are unbroken, gener-ally proves a match for an old bull buffalo, which in size and strengthgreatly surpasses the most powerful breed of American cattle; the lionalso preys on all the larger varieties of the antelopes, and on both varie-. LIONS CAPTURING A BUFFALO. ties of the gnoo. The zebra, which is met with in large herds through-out the interior, is also a favorite object of his pursuit. Lions do not refuse, as has been asserted, to feed upon the venison thatthey have not killed themselves. I have repeatedly discovered lions ofall ages which had taken possession of, and were feasting upon, the car-cases of various game quadrupeds which had fallen before my rifle. The lion is very generally diffused throughout the secluded parts ofSouthern Africa. He is, however, nowhere met with in great abund-ance, it being very rare to find more than three, or even two families of 42 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. lions frequenting the same district and drinking at the same a greater number were met with, I remarked th
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