Show A an u adventure in africa A recent traveler in the forests of africa gives givas the following graphic account of nis fils adventure with a lion the distant roaring of a lion now reached my ears and filled my soul with emotions of horror borror so great that I 1 could not summon even a thought of prayer and memory refused to supply me with the most hackneyed expression of piety bound as I 1 was to a forest tree by the savages who had bad c cap a aured me I 1 now heard this terri terrible bre animal approaching crushing the shrubs and branches in his native wood as he came his fearful roar was singular in sound hoarse and inarticulate it swelled upon the air like a prolonged 0 1 that seemed to come from and pass to a vast distance it never became loud or shrill but the idea it suggested of the animal itself made it seem to tierce pierce the very soul with great bewilderment of mind like one gnp in a dream that is full of nightmare I 1 beheld a great and dark skinned lion run out of the wood a hundred yards off and after looking about he be came towards me for by some kome strange instinct he became sensible of my hicl vicinity in an instant on beholding me he dropped his bis prey a zebra held in his mouth and after I 1 uttering another hoarse roar continued to approach with his nose nobe close to the ground while switching his tufted tail tall and shaking his shaggy mane preparatory as I 1 imagined to making a spring upon me I 1 closed my eyes and with a heart that died within me resigned myself to my fate he approached nearer and nearer until I 1 felt his whiskers touch my chin one moment more and I 1 would have been lost but summoning all my powers I 1 uttered one fierce and heartrending yell which brought the savages from out of their bomea homes the lion hearing this yeli jell sud suddenly denly deuly turned about and calmly taking his zebra in his jaws left the spot and I 1 was saved |