Doctor livingston says, in his Book of Travels in Africa, that if you come upon the lion in the day time, he will face you and quietly look at you; and if you stand still he will in a short time turn and look at you over his shoulder, and then commence easily to move away, and when he thinks he is out of sight he will bound off with accelerated speed.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
livingston, who was familiar with the French language, the nature of their visit, this great native Captain, this commander by the creation of his Maker, rose in his stirrups and said, in a loud voice, "Tell them, Colonel, to rely upon me, I will protect them, defend the city, and save it!"
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett
He resides three and one half miles north of livingston, near the lower Jones' Bluff road.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch