Show thoughts before being eaten the african explorer and missionary david livingstone has furnished us with an instance of what may have passed through the minds of christian martyrs in the old days just before being devoured by lions livingstone who was once overcome and badly shaken by a lion recounts that the shaking produced in him a sort of dreaminess in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror asked afterward what his main thought was at the time he replied that he was wondering calmly ca linly w what hat part ol of him would be eaten first |