This of course was written before Mr. Quatermain's account of the adventures in the newly–discovered country of Zu–Vendis of himself, Sir Henry Curtis, and Capt. John Good had been received in England.—Editor.
I have known a lion carry a two–year–old ox over a stone wall four feet high in this fashion, and a mile away into the bush beyond. He was subsequently poisoned by strychnine put into the carcass of the ox, and I still have his claws.—Editor.