"Though I should never forget, we re I to live a thousand years, the freezing horror, the madening agony, I endured when I encountered the murderous glare of the lioness, as her eyes flashed fire in the moment of springing at me, yet I cannot think I was utterly senseless, except for a very short interval. My situation was more like that of a frantic bedlamite in a powerful paroxism. I screamed, I fought, I resisted; and verily believed when, at the moment reason began to dawn, I felt something tug my cloaths, that I was covered with wounds, and at my last gasp.
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.