Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — The Voice of the Lion. [ARTICLE]

The Voice of the Lion.

One’s taste for music wcAald seem U> require cultivation before he could recall the terrible beast of the' (insert’s “sweet’’under the circumstance* described osr this traveler..One of the most striking things connected •with the lion is his voice,which is extremely* grand and peculiarly striking. It cofesists at times of a low, deep moaning, repeated five or six times, ending in faintly audible sighs; at other times he startles the forest with loud, deep-toned, aolgmn roars,' repeated five or six times in quick succession, each increasing in loudness to the third or fourth, when his voice dies away into five or six low, muffled sounds, very much resembling distant thunder. At times, and not unfreouently, a troop may be heard roaring in concert, one assuming lead, and one, two, three, or four more regularly taking up their parte, like persons singing a catch. Like our Scottish stags,they roar loudest in cold, frosty nights. But on no occasion are their voices so powerful, as when two or three strange troops of lions approach a fountain to drink at the same time. When this occurs, every member of the same troop sounds a bold roar of defiance at the opposite parties; and when one roan, all roar together, and each seems to vie with his comrade In the intensity and power of his voice. The power and grandeur of these nocturnal forest concerts is inconceivably striking and pleasing to the hunter’s ear. The effect, I may remark, is greatly enhanced when the hearer happens to be situated in the depths of the forest, at the dead hour of midnight, unaccompanied by any attendant, and ensconced within twenty yards of the fountain which the surrounding troop of lion# are approaching, Such has been my situation many scores of times; and though I atn allowed to have a tolerably good taste for music, I consider the catches with which I was then regaled the sweetest and most natural I ever beard.— Cumming.

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