In the Land of the Lion [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONA'/\\ T one time, the title of this book might very well have referred to the whole of Africa, for that was the land of the lion. But civilization and the lion do not agree, and as district after district in Africa has come under civilization the lion has gradually died out until now with a few exceptions he is only to be found in any great numbers in his last and greatest strongholdCentral Africa.It is of the many types of wild creature that inhabit this portion of the continentan area of more than two hundred thousand square miles that I write. There, every variety of country can be found: tracts that resemble English parkland, forests, plains, volcanic hills and mountains (some a thousand feet high, others rising to nearly twenty thousand feet), stretches of ground covered with thickly-growing thorn bush, other stretches where the stunted bushes are scattered here and there with close-cropped and trodden grass between, acres of elephant grass often fifteen feet high, belts of15