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flicted looks and moaning satisfied the owner and afterwards of twenty, making together sixty Paris, some to Vienna, some are in Calcutta, whence the lioness could see him, and her af- different parts of the world ; some were sent to wards of grief. I had the lioness about fifteen and two remain at the Cape. When the lion died, he was incautiously skinned near the den ble increase. But, when brought to the Cape AND NEILGHERRY HILLS. 59 wards, was owing to her grief for his loss, as stated in the following certificate given when Town, a lion and lioness stuffed, who were the that her death, which took place a month after- parents of forty cubs in the course of four years, they were purchased from him : litter, and twice each year. After the fifth " The lioness died about six weeks after- and water, their increase is prodigious. There from one pair. The progeny are scattered over were lately purchased, at Mons. Villet's in Cape and kept in confinement, with plenty of food about two years since of the liver complaint. " This lion was fifteen years old, and died year, she had only one litter a year. The names " She had in the first four years five cubs in a years, and in that period she had sixty cubs.

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