Man-Eaters Read Free

experience.
    "Regarding my sensations during the time of the attack upon me by the lion was in progress, I had no feeling of pain whatever, although there there was a distinct feeling of being bitten; that is, I was perfectly conscious, independently of seeing the performance, that the lion was gnawing at me; but there was no pain. To show that the feeling, or rather want of it, was in no wise due to excessive terror I may mention that, whilst my thighs were being gnawed, I took two cartridges out of the
    breast pocket of my shirt and threw them to the Kaffir, who was hovering a few yards away, telling him to load my rifle..."
    And now a word for the man-eaters. The same intelligence that created us created them. It gave them large bodies and enormous vitality, requiring great quantities of food for their support; but it did not endow them with alimentary processes fitting them to assimilate broccoli, artichokes, avocados, or spaghetti. Therefore, they eat meat, and we are meat. Their methods of obtaining meat may seem ruthless to us, but you must remember that lions have no packers to do their killing for them. Doubtless our methods seem ruthless to pigs, cows, chickens, and sheep. However, I am going right ahead eating prime beef; and I accord to the man-eaters their inalienable right to go on eating us, provided that they can catch us.