The Lion Feeds Tonight
Northern Rhodesia is one of the most beautiful and peaceful countries in Africa. It has vast areas of open plains in which huge herds of wild game roam. The landscape is laced with lakes, rivers, streams, rapids, waterfalls and swamps. It has enormous pockets of dense bush consisting of tall trees, clumps of bamboo, and is dotted with ancient anthills built by prehistoric ants in the mists of antiquity.
Northern Rhodesia, a landlocked country with crisp air, quiet stillness, and endless sunshine is situated between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator, and stretches from the golden-brown Zambezi River in the south to the silver shores of Lake Tanganyika in the north. At an altitude of 1000 –1600 metres above sea level, 10 – 18 degrees south of the Equator, it offers a magnificent temperate climate with a high annual rainfall and little humidity.
This land of lions, elephants, buffaloes, rhinos, and the most deadly of snakes, including the black mamba, is no place for the faint-hearted. Northern Rhodesia is the domain of Africa’s largest and most ferocious man-eating lions. In many areas these lions reigned with terror and although there was an abundance of buck for the lion to feed on, they preferred to eat humans.