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the lion roars who is not afraid when you were walking down the trail and you saw the lion and you weren't on the jeep that's pretty frightening who fears not the roar of the lion and of course the mate bring ar is rash lol rashashana yam kipper hashana rabba But what I would like to share with you tonight is to get a real feel of what it means to be stirred by the roar of a lion. And I want to tell you the amazing account of Colonel John Patterson. Do you know about Colonel John Patterson? Colonel John Patterson was an Irish soldier, an engineer born in 1867 and he joined the British Army at the age of 17 and he attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1898, Colonel Patterson was commissioned by the Uganda Railway Committee in London to oversee the construction of a railroad bridge over the Savo River in present day Kenya. My parents wanted to go to Kenya, but I was able to convince them to uh ste to steer away. And he arrives in Kenya at the Tavo River to build this bridge in 1898. Immediately upon the arrival of Colonel John Patterson, lion attacks began to take place. Every night, two lions would drag men out of their tents at night and fed on these victims. The maneing lion behavior was considered very unusual. Usually lions do not eat human beings for dinner. It's not a typical thing for a lion to chew on a human chop or uh you know a human steak. Lions don't really have not developed a taste for human beings. These lions cultivated a taste and an appetite to eat human beings. And different theories were advanced. How did these two lions develop such an appetite to eat human beings? Some say it was the poor burial practices in
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- 0:31the lion roars who is not afraid when you were walking down the trail and you…
- 1:03account of Colonel John Patterson. Do you know about Colonel John Patterson? Colonel John Patterson was…
- 2:04Usually lions do not eat human beings for dinner. It's not a typical thing for a…
- 3:05people. And despite building thorn walls around the camps and bonfires and electrical wire, nothing stopped…
- 4:08lions worked was they would roar. They would roar until they got half close to the…
- 5:09little cuddly lions. We're talking about lions, these maneating lions measured 9 ft long from the…
- 6:11Patterson confronted the lion face to face. He shot the lion multiple times whereupon the lion…
- 7:15lion, they couldn't sleep at night. Are you able to sleep in? Do you fall asleep…
- 8:18The answer why we're not afraid of an el of a rash of yam kipper of…
- 9:21sees the and you realize all of these concepts then we revert back to where we're…
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