covered his tranquillity; day and night he appeared to be on the listen, and the approach of a large monkey we had on board, or the intrusion of a black man, brought a return of his agitation.

"We at length sailed for England with an ample supply of provisions; but, unhappily, we were boarded by pirates during the voyage, and nearly reduced to starvation. My panther must have perished, had it not been for a collection of more than three hundred parrots with which we sailed from the river, and which died very fast while we were in the north-west trades. Sai's allowance was one per diem; but this was so scanty a pittance, that he became ravenous, and had not patience to pick all the feathers off before he commenced his meal. The consequence was, he became very ill, and refused even this small supply of food. Those around tried to persuade me that he suffered from the colder climate; but his dry nose and paws convinced me that he was feverish; and I had him taken out of his cage, when, instead of jumping about and enjoying his liberty, he lay down and rested his head upon my feet. I then made him three pills, each containing two grains of calomel. The boy who had the charge of him, and who was attached to him, held his jaws open, and I pushed the medicine down his throat. Early the next morning I went to visit my patient, and found his guard sleeping in the cage with him; and, having administered a further dose to the invalid, I had the satisfaction of seeing him perfectly cured by the evening. On the arrival of the vessel in the London Docks, Sai was taken ashore, and presented to the Duchess of York, who placed him in Exeter Change, to be taken care of till she herself went to Oatlands. He remained there for some weeks, and was suffered to roam about the greater part of the day without any restraint. On the morning previous to the Duchess's departure from town, she went to visit her new pet, played with him, and admired his healthy appearance and gentle deportment. In the

evening, when Her Royal Highness's coachman went to take him away, he was dead, in consequence of an inflammation on his lungs."- LOUDON's Magazine of Natural History.

PROVERBS XXX. 29, 30.

"There be three things which go well, yea,

four are

comely in going: a lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any."

"The lion shall eat straw like the ox."

EZEKIEL Xix. 6, 8.

[He] became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey.... Then the nations set against him...and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit." [PSALM ix. 15; NAHUM ii. 11, 12.]

AMOS iii. 8.

"The lion hath roared, who will not fear?"

1 PETER V. 8.

"Be sober-be vigilant because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." [MICAH v. 8.]

"The skin of a noble lion was sent me by the Sheikh ...measuring from the tail to the nose fourteen feet two inches. He had devoured four slaves, and was at last taken by the following stratagem: the inhabitants assembled together, and with loud cries and noises drove him from the place where he had last feasted; they then dug a very deep circular hole, armed with sharp pointed stakes; this they most cunningly covered with stalks of the japut (millet). A bundle of straw, enveloped in a (mantle) was laid over the spot, to which a gentle motion, like that of a man turning in sleep, was occasionally given by means of a line carried to some distance. On their quitting the spot, and the noise ceasing, the lion returned to his haunt, and was observed watching his trap for seven or eight hours, by degrees approaching closer and closer-and at length he made a dreadful spring on his supposed prey, and was precipitated to the bottom of the pit. The people now rushed to the spot, and before he could recover himself despatched him with their spears."-DENHAM'S Africa.

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Amongst other articles offered me for sale was a young lion-who walked about with great unconcern, confined merely by a small rope round his neck held by the

negro, who had caught him when he was not two months old, and having had him for a period of three months, now wished to part with him he was about the size of a donkey-colt, with very large limbs, and the people seemed to go very close to him without much alarm, notwithstanding he struck with his foot the leg of one man who stood in his way, and made the blood flow copiously they opened the ring which was formed round this noble animal as I approached; and coming within two or three yards of him, he fixed his eye upon me in a way that excited sensations I cannot describe, from which I was awakened by the fellow calling me to come nearer, at the same time laying his hand on the animal's back; a moment's recollection convinced me that there could be no more danger nearer than where I was, and I stepped boldly up beside the negro, and I believe should have laid my hand on the lion the next moment; but after looking carelessly at me, he brushed past my legs, broke the ring, and pulled his conductor away with him, overturning several who stood before him, and bounded off to another part where there were fewer people."-Discoveries in Africa, vol. i. pp. 219, 220.

The roaring of a lion in quest of his prey, resembles the sound of distant thunder, and being re-echoed by the rocks and mountains, appals the whole race of animals, and puts them instantly to flight; but he frequently varies his voice into a hideous scream or yell. "When the lion roars, the beasts of the field can do nothing but quake; they are afraid to lie still in their dens, lest he spring upon them, and equally afraid to run, lest, in attempting to escape, they should take the direction in which he is prowling, and throw themselves into the jaws of their adversary."-Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.

"Fire is what the lions are most afraid of; yet, notwithstanding all the precaution of the Arabs in this respect; notwithstanding the barking of their dogs, and their own repeated cries and exclamations during the

night, when they are suspected to be upon the prey, it frequently happens that these ravenous beasts, outbraving all these terrors, will leap into the midst of the place where the cattle are inclosed, and drag from thence a sheep or a goat. If these ravages are repeated, then the Arabs dig a pit, where they are observed to enter, and covering it over slightly with reeds, or small branches of trees, they frequently decoy and catch them. The flesh of the lion is in great esteem, having no small affinity with veal, both in colour, taste, and flavour."— SHAW's Travels, p. 245.

"A farmer advised us to make fast our oxen to the waggons, as two of his horses had been devoured on the preceding night by lions. (This animal is) treacherous, because it seldom makes an open attack, but lies in ambush till it can conveniently spring upon its prey... The lion, in fact, is one of the most indolent of all the beasts of prey, and never gives himself the trouble of a pursuit unless hard pressed with hunger."-BARROW's Southern Africa.

LOCUST.

EXODUS X. 12-15, 19.

"And the Lord said unto Moses, stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them