The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-28
How Lions, Tigers and Partners Kin.

How Lions, Tigers and Partners Kill.
 Lions, tigers and partners kill in the same manner. usually by seiaing the throat, and so dragging the beast to the ground. Sometimes I have foun l claw-marks on the wlthers when the kill has been a yoig animal such as wa ter-buffaloes. showing that the beast ! has sprung on it's back first and then buried its teeth in the throat. Death is caused sometimes by a broken neck, but more often, am inclined to think, by suffocation. l have been within a few feet of a lion as he killed a donkey. The weight of the lions body of course dashed the donkey to the ground, but from the gasping sound I heard-it was too dark to see-I think the donkey was choked to death.
 Once l saw. in broad daylight, a pan ther seize a goat. It was the work of an instant. The panther rushed in, made complete sonersault with the goat in his jaws, then sprang up. drop
 pug IIlt bVil' " illNli ltiN 7bill With 'h broken neck. But then again l heard @ panther kill a goat at night, when the poor animals cries told of prolonged agony, as if it was being eaten alive.
 l have heard a tigers charge de- scribed as a series of bounds, but as have never had the distinction of being charged rby one I can give no opinion. From lions I have received the atten- tion several times. On such occasions, when a yellow body. all muscle and bone, and weighing some five hundred pounds, is rushing into you with tre- mendous force, the mind is naturally SO intensely concentrated on ones aim that it is not likely to take in details. and ] should be sorry to assert posi- lively that a lion does not come at one by leaps. But the impression I gath cred from those exhilarating moments was that the lion ran in at me with a pounding action of his paws and at a great pace. First impressions are said to be most vivid. and l certainly have a most lively recollection of an encounter with a liOn
 Giving over my pony to one Of the Sumalis, I walked slowly towards the lion. bidding lama to remain in the saddle if he wished. but to keep as near as possible with the second gun. Very cautious and slow was my approach, for I did not want to bring on a charge before I had got in shot, and it looked as if a too rapid advance would do SO for the lion. without stirring an inch, kept up a series of snarls and growls, giving me an excellent view of his teeth, accompanied all the while by short, sharp Hicks of his tail on tho ground I walked up to within fifty yards of him, hoping to shoot him dead at that distance. and so avoid charge I then sat down and fired at him be- tween the eyes, jumping to my feet in. stinctively to be ready if he charged
 It was not a bit too soon At the shot tn lion sprang up with d furious roar l had lightning glimpse of him rear ing up on his hind legs paving the air,
 then he came for me. It was a fierce rush across the ground, no spTingn2 that | could see. How close we got be- fore I fired I cannot say. but il was very clos I let him come on. aiming the muzzies of the rife at his 1hese Jana says he was about to spring as | pulled the trigger, and ran back paeg or two to one side: but as ! did so I saw through the smoke that the lion was stopped within a few paces of me. The second gun and lama Were not near Is they might have been. The lion strug-