The immense masses of muscle around its jaws, shoulders, and forearms proclaim tremendous force.

They would seem, however, to be inferior in power to those of the Indian tiger.

Most of those feats of strength that I have seen performed by lions, such as the taking away of an ox, were not carrying, but dragging or trailing the carcass along the ground: they have sprung on some occasions on to the hind-quarters of a horse, but no one has ever seen them on the withers of a giraffe.

They do not mount on the hind-quarters of an eland even, but try to tear him down with their claws.Messrs.Oswell and Vardon once saw three lions endeavoring to drag down a buffalo, and they were unable to do so for a time, though he was then mortally wounded by a two-ounce ball.* * This singular encounter, in the words of an eye-witness, happened as follows: "My South African Journal is now before me, and I have got hold of the account of the lion and buffalo affair; here it is: '15th September, 1846.

Oswell and I were riding this afternoon along the banks of the Limpopo, when a waterbuck started in front of us.