The sense of black-hearted frustration Patterson felt is clarified when he speaks of one evening when the lions chose to eat their man-kill within easy hearing of his tent, almost trying to taunt him:

"I could plainly hear them crunching the bones, the sound of their dreadful purring filled the air and ran in my ears for days afterward."

page 19, Death in the Silent Places, by Peter Hathaway Capstick

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Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8), by God