| Show from urs ure illustrated ALL ABOUT LIONS our readers must remember a short but striking article published by us a few weeks ago entitled the loves of the file liona lions 1 we found the ha piece in an exchange uncreated and have seen it since in ht hundreds of papers but pot tili till ti 1 l a few days ago did we discover taho ho it wms that had learned so much of lion ilfe life and looked so deeply into hito the lions heart it was gerard the lion killer whose adventures have recen recently ben been trall translated into beugli engime h by mr air charles E whitehead White hend and mud soled in this city by derby jackson in the opening chapter of alili wonderful volume the pigs pies go referred to may b bi bt t found and arid the whole work is of a piece with the extract it is a book which for the first time akes mikes civilized men nien acquainted with iila ilia king of beasts or as mr air gerdrd gerard styles him that thunderbolt of cd hell bell which is called a lion the tran translator slator hitro introduces duces M gerards narrative a with wilh one of his own owe one oae summt r day lie siy white loitering tinder the tile trees by the river seine where it flows i through tle ile te tie champs elyses elyse Ely ft s in ili paris pam wat catchin chin the idle crowd and speculating on its manners a and nd meanings some fancy led mo me to the shooting gillery of aion Alon monsieur devisme tile tiye number of or and lo lonn tonn ringers gers gera were sitting titling within wll wil liin llin talking and laughing lo together auld and aud a mart n ras was as standing ii orb orV op osita rosita the tar target J wit rifle in hand ready to take his shot As I 1 joined the group standing near him he brought his rifi rifen to hla hia shoulder and hardly had the barrel attained its it level before the piece was wa discharged and the marker down at the other end of the gallery called out the center at the tile same time marking the bullet hole with witha a white wa wand nd there was something so quick and decided in tivo motions of the matl man and as I 1 fancied something of mie the bir hir of tha the mississippi scout hi ili his posture t hat that I 1 crossed over to the ilia other elde eide of the gallery to see ee his coune nanc A heavy black beard and moustache trimmed to a polut point conceal d the lower part of a bronzed visage the turban of the uniform shaded his hia forehead his face was thin and almost the only uncovered feature of his countenance by which the tiie spectator might judge the character clar acter of mhd man was w the tile eye this was dark and remarkably piercing seeming to concentrate heat and b gm ight like lilie a lens and yet was not quick withal but on tiie the con coll coutard tary calm and slow in ili its Is movements before my ob observation were finished the attendant handed banded to the marksman another lifis dropping his right foot a step behind ha he raised the tile gun quickly as before I 1 scarcely discernible instant of pause and aud the report rang rung on oil the ear car while from the other end of the gallery came back tila ilia markers mir kers call mariee marlee another shot and another and always the same result until a dozen shots had been bean fired I 1 and a dozen bullets hid had been married or piled ss ils j the he more literal saxon would render it ia in the center of the tiie target the marksman then bowed poi pol politely tely to the group of gentlemen standing by and passe passed dout out I 1 of the gallery thebus the buz of C conversation that had been hushed was renewed and turning to one of the attendants I 1 asked who is the gentleman who ho was just shooting herel beret you dont know him blin that was gerard the lion killer 1 for more than a month I 1 had find seen that name nama pac crded on all al the he cabi bats de lectures and ia in tile tiie book shops of paris and had never had the curiosity to loek lock at tiie the work with which it was connected now on the contrary I 1 felt constrained to purchase the ilia volume and seating myself on one ona of the benches beneath the embower ing lug trees with all till the llie great city pulsating around me was soon eoon away to the cool hills of the zara zira zer or watching wet wel ching the spoor of the tho lions as us they came down to drink in the mahoune valley it was judicious ili in mr din whitehead to give liis his readers siders re this glimpse of or ilia his hero as it helps to render tile subsequent narratives credible thoe narratives are of or a nature so extraordinary extra extraordinary y that I 1 the reader desi demi desirer desires ref rep above all things lings ti to know whether it if ii to al gerards gerarda gemar Gerar df memory or to M gerar geray gerards Ge raids ds imagination b that he is indebted for them and if they pre true the reader wishes to know further whether they cra cro french truth or truth for our own pirt we are strongly of or opinion that ilat lle ile lie the book ia is substantially true saxon fact in ili french mold with willi french coloring and aith with ith less IMS of french exaggeration than might have been expected expected T to have in invented Tented some of tf gerards gerarda stories would demand a gei get ius for invention tion more wonder wonderful fid pid than the tile stories thero thera themselves selves M 1 gerard it arp ears aars was originally a private primate in one of the dr drs goon of the tiie french army rm in algiers which province was tilo tho beene of his ex exploits plots ile he spent ten years in africa and as he tells us watched six hundred night nights for the lion ile lie had such signal success succors in ili iio lio hos hunting hunti that be is was isas as continually sent for by arab tribes to deliver them from the ilia destroyer of their cattle catlie aha ana he be seems teems to have been bren gradually drawn into tile tilo the ilia sole business of killing lions a busl busi business neis reis however for which lie never neer would accept any remuneration whatever ile he ivaa was a gentility e hunter and aud a natural dead sl shot lot we propose to extract extrac a few pats pass ages agri from frem the narrative of his od ventures adventures 1 I lie he lin ain according to 31 hi 11 gerard ilaa lisa been misunderstood because lie he bas has generally geue geyer rally alfy been encountered by Euro europeans penns only in the alyta when he is gorged and sleepy As A to myself 1 hi lv says 1 I 1 will say that if I 1 ilava havo noticed an all indifferent expression en cn the countenance of several lions whom I 1 have met abroad early in ili the tiie evening I 1 never saw those thosa that I 1 met at night exhibit other than the tha most hostile dle die disposition position I 1 am arn so sure thit th it a sli sit gle men man is inevitably lost if lie he meets meats with such all an encounter that when I 1 am bivouacking bivouac king in ili the mountain I 1 never leave my tent lent after sunset for an instant iu stant except with willi my iny carbine in my hand the first illustration which our hunter gives of the tile lions liona nocturnal feio fein ferocity city cily is i a story related to him by sone some arabs and which is known to all the of constantine this story at onee ones the tho most curi euri eurious ous and horrillo bor hor riLle wo we ever read fa is as follows two brothers condemned tode fode to beath ath nth were confined fined in tile the city prison awaiting their execution on the morrow they w were ere barl bari bandits of great reno teno n tor for strength and cou courser regp rege the tile bey bev fearin fearing they tiley might escape by their and lt give orders that they should be ironed with tte ati n traves that is an iron ring which is bound around tile the right lg ig l g of one prisoner i with the tha leit left leg of another in rach each a n manner tanner that thai the tho two legs are fastened close to together ether elber and thea them uie lile iron bind band is welded this was don and yet on the morrow the e ex x on tb ielne their aeh el it empty empt find nd no one knew knee how hov they had escaped the two wo brothers as eoon a thy were free from the tha prison iii rii closure made mada unav unai unavailing 1 abing efforts to cut or pry orf off their cumbersome ornament but find ing ng it impossible fled across the tile country avold ing agas much us possible the frequented paths wilen dja delight light cam ethey hid the themselves Tu selves in the rock rocks and only resumed their flight with the evening being lighted on their way by tile the faint rays of a crescent moon and the bright hope llope ef of freedom thus they had already traveled a long iong distance dk tance when ili in the middle of tho tile second night they suddenly came carne upon a ifon lion tiie tile two robbers commenced by throw throwing thre wing ilig lilg stones at him and calling out ont as a loud as they were able in ili 0 der to make him film flee lut but the animal crouched down before them and did not sot move seeing that the stones and m enacts were of no avail the tile frightened men commenced their prayer ers hut but before they nere were finished the ion upon them and throwing them to the ground devoured the elder while still chained cl amed to the lody of his younger brother tho the iving I ving man inan EI ex he be heard beard the lessening moans of I 1 his ils lis relative and the 1 of lh lion at lii iii ins 9 hideous meal had no trouble iti in ciuci cour death but swooned where lie fell when the animal had llad bateu the body down to ioe the tile shackle finding a ar substance he could not masticate lie ut hit efy llie tile leg of or the tile brother lie wes wea eating below the he knee leaving the lower part of the limb still confined iu in the iron liuk then either from thirst or from being satisfied wilh with what he had llad daiev eaten he left the living man mail and walked down to a brook a little distance off the poor devil once alone sprung sprang to his lia fet feet and dragging drugging with him tile tila mangled limb crept crep into a crevice of a rock that he be was for foi tunco tuneo enough to discover A few ew moments after the tiie insatiate leest ay ai rived on his track roaring alth rith with aith unger erd passed around and above the lioe hole iloe in ili which lie had sought refuge lut being belne unable to reach his prey he lie left for the woods with the tiie first dawning of the tho day the trembling fugitive a second time urne saved seved crawl crawle crawled cd ct out of f his hla hiding place to arnew renew his lis fl glit when lie he vas was captured by some somo of tho the horsemen of the by bey who had been following his traces who putting him oil the crupper cropper of the t ric lic saddle saddie carri d him baek back to constintine constantine where he lie was again thrown into prison tiie tile bey astonished at the tale his soldiers brought back to him film ordered ilio tho man mail 1 11 reb res cence to certify to lile llie truth of the story ati all ana anu the culprit was led out still dragin dragging 9 after him the ipg of liis his brother ahm ahmed ed be bey boy y was so eo moved bf by tiie llie strange and wild that 1 although I bearing tle tie reputation of a ruler ho he ordered the tile engrave broken and the th e prisoner to lc le set at liberty to this dreadful story flory AT girard ge rard adds ome some in teres feres le 1119 illg particulars respecting tle the tit tie voice and babila of the ilia lion 1 I 1 have had lied oc occasion cerion ho be says during many a night to 10 study the ilia voice 0 of the lion and I 1 will give to my readers my on tie the subject chich is the follow folio abig h g when a lion lien and end homes are tio the fe male alama rears first ard tt the nent when rhen the couple couil is let lei ong its is loir the tile roar is com poud posed of a darn dzen arn zen distinct curdis curris alith m lah atre coin corn mence fenced d by low fiaui fg end and cheit hc go 0 on o macd crescendo do and fickli ee us they begaii began leaving en an interval of n i few seconds between cech sound fourd the hom how lio iio atlea alLea lhea ilta alternates with the lioness they roar li L that unit manner every quarter of nn hour up to the moment when rhen lien bey hey hey bay approach the t that trat they ure are about f to 0 chek when they both keep leep liep leep keep bi lence silence but alter they hage have then ther ti her hen and eaten enten their food they rc their melancholy and continue falle it until inor lnor A soli solitary tiry ay lion generally geler geier ally aily roars us lie he rises from ills his slumber at the commencement of tle night and will aill olten liis his thundering challenges without CPR allon alion until he reaches the encamp ments during the great heats beats of summer the lion liou roars but little tidd bud sometimes not ct rt elik flik 1 l but ES the season seabon of od liis his amours advances advance he lie miles milia mi eis lia up forthe for the timo tima tim lost lott in ili fille fei lence lecce nce the arabs whose whore lan language eurge gurge is rich 11 in compari ors ons sors ort lave but one oue borri A ord for the roaring cf of tle lion und and that Is isad rt d thun thur thunder der amborg other oilier frolish quest questions ions lons I 1 have hwd had soled me ine ie is why ates the lion ilon I 1 A cud say that the rearing of the lion is to him lim limul ai at to the tile bird urd is Hs lis ils nici ical fong arii ani if tie tle r docs dors not bellee deliee if tre tie a f fc ato if ie I e will 1 I go 0 o to lle lie forests and rass ras rab leveral yera lera in his co le mav perchance per chalice find flud a the length of lle ile lie the life of the llie lion is from t to foria forty dorty yens yetra he ile kills or consumes consumes year by year heroes es mules herried horned catt cattle e ahmels ard sheep sleep to the tile vahie of twelve hundred hun hut odred doll doil dollars irs irb and taking tile llie average of ills lits lafr lift hiell ie is thirty ibe file 5 3 ears earr each lion oets bets carts the arais arabs forty t two iwo 0 thousand dollars I 1 the thirty animals of t this is a bivil g at this thia F present resent in the tile provit ce 0 of f consta Constan constantine ntine tine line and is rel rei laced by oil 0 lacre ere cre caming from front tunis or I morocco lorocco lre ire I 1 ly y ap an cit cst c tt of or thirty six thousand tho iho sand colars iu in the com con litres laitres where I 1 lave been d to hunt tile the armb arab aho pays bri till lax of gire ilya effir francs traces ca pays another of 0 filly francs franes to the licit lic ilc the natives have destroyed more ahr it one ole lulf half c cf f the tiie woods in algiers in ili order to drive F eway way theeo theto o noxious animals and end the tho french hoping to 0 o stop ilire ilir e fires that to destroy ta the woods in the countr country haw hav passed las laa ow iny lay iny fay fine fide upon the ria natives tives defected detected burnar the he wqde wade 0 o al 31 concluded next week |
