I remember to this moment seeing the body of the lioness in the air, and then all was dark as pitch.

What a change! not a moment before all of us staring with delight and curiosity, and then to be left in darkness, horror, and dismay! There was such screaming and shrieking, such crying, and fighting, and pushing, and fainting, nobody knew where to go, or how to find their way out.

The people crowded first on one side, and then on the other, as their fears instigated them.

I was very soon jammed up with my back against the bars of one of the cages, and feeling some beast lay hold of me behind, made a desperate effort, and succeeded in climbing up to the cage above, not however without losing the seat of my trowsers, which the laughing hyaena would not let go.

I hardly knew where I was when I climbed up; but I knew the birds were mostly stationed above.