en
to eating that alone. I have shot a `man-eater' from the back of an
elephant, and I found that the skin was not worth taking."

"The Namaquas," replied Swinton, "told me that a lion, once enamoured of
human flesh, would, in order to obtain it, so far overcome his caution,
that he would leap through a fire to seize a man. I once went to visit
a Namaqua chief, who had been severely wounded by a lion of this
description--a man-eater, as the Major terms them,--and he gave me the
following dreadful narrative, which certainly corroborates what they
assert of the lion who has once taken a fancy to human flesh.

"The chief told me that he had gone out with a party of his men to hunt:
they had guns, bow, and arrows, and assaguays. On the first day, as
they were pursuing an elephant, they came across some lions, who
attacked them, and they were obliged to save their lives by abandoning a
horse, which the lions devoured. They then made hiding places of thick
bushes by a pool, where they knew the elephant and rhinoceros would come
to drink.

"As they fired at a rhinoceros, a lion leaped into their enclosure, took
up one of the men in his mouth and carried him off, and all that they
afterwards could find of him the next day was one of the bones of his
leg. The next night, as they were sitting by a fire inside of their
enclosure of bushes, a lion came, seized one of the men, dragged him
through the fire, and tore out his back. One of the party fired, but
missed; upon which, the lion, dropping his dying victim, growled at the
men across the fire, and they durst not repeat the shot; the lion then
took up his prey in his mouth, and went off with it.

"Alarmed at such disasters, the Namaquas collected together in one
strong enclosure, and at night sent out one of the slaves for water. He
had no sooner reached the pool than he was seized by a lion; he called
in vain for help, but was dragged off through the woods, and the next
day his skull only was found, clean licked by the rough tongue of the
lion.

"Having now lost three men in three days, the chief and his whole party
turned out to hunt and destroy lions only. They followed the spoor or
track of the one which had taken the slave, and they soon found two
lions, one of which, the smallest, they shot; and then, having taken
their breakfast, they went after the other, and largest, which was
recognised as the one which had devoured the man.

"They followed the animal to