. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. in the adjoining river; the soil of their gardens, yearly inundated with rivermud, yielded magnificent crops, and then a curious superstition clogged their was surmised that the man-eater was a were lion and could not be fought againstby ordinary weapons; it was either the spirit of a dead chief animating the lions bodyor one of themselves—some monster who could at will assume a lions form to slake histhirst for blood.* But though they had ceased themselves to attempt the destruction ofthe man-eater, they were a
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. in the adjoining river; the soil of their gardens, yearly inundated with rivermud, yielded magnificent crops, and then a curious superstition clogged their was surmised that the man-eater was a were lion and could not be fought againstby ordinary weapons; it was either the spirit of a dead chief animating the lions bodyor one of themselves—some monster who could at will assume a lions form to slake histhirst for blood.* But though they had ceased themselves to attempt the destruction ofthe man-eater, they were anxious for the white man to make an effort. The lion,however, was cunning enough to know that a new and more efficient force h,ad appearedon the scene, and he disappeared for some time. At last, however, he was tracked down * At this period in Nyasaland (if not also now) there were not infrequently cases of negroes believing them-selves to be lions and lying in wait for their unsuspecting victims, whom they killed (with knives and clubs) andpartially devoured. ,. niotoarajih by Fiatilh Aim, 86 Animal Life
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