THE WOLF. 169 
and such-like creatures, which made me doubt that 
I should never have seen a house again.”* 
Years later, as we learn from Sir Robert Gordon, 
the Wolf was still included amongst the wild animals 
of Sutherlandshire. He says the forests and 
“‘schases ” in that county were “ verie profitable for 
feiding of bestiall, and delectable for hunting, being 
full of reid deer and roes, Wouljfs, foxes, wyld catts, 
brocks, skuyrells, whittrets, weasels, otters, martrixes, 
hares, and fumarts.’t 
In 1621 the price paid in Sutherlandshire for the 
killing of one Wolf according to statute was 
6/. 138. 4d. 
Wolf-skins are mentioned in 1661 in a Customs 
Roll of Charles II.,{ whence it appears that two 
ounces of silver were paid “ for ilk two daker.’’§ 
Twenty years later, if we are to credit the state- 
ment of Sir Robert Sibbald, whose “Scotia Ilus- 
trata” was published in 1684, the animal had 
become extinct. His words are: Lup olim frequentes 
erant, qudam etiam de Caledoniis ursis loquuntur. 
* “The Pennyles Pilgrimage, or the Moneylesse Perambulation of 
John Taylor, alias the King’s Majesties Water Poet. How he travailed 
on foot from London to Edenborough in Scotland. With his descrip- 
tion of his entertainment in all places of his journey anda true report 
of the unmatchable hunting in the Brea of Marre and Badenoch in 
Scotland.” 4to, London, 1681. 
t “Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland, from its 
origin to the year 1630.” 
t See Glendook’s “ Scots Acts,” Charles IT., p. 36. 
§ The word “daker” or ‘“ dicker” (Greek Sexa, ten) is still in use in 
the leather trade, and means a roll of ten skins. It was anciently 
spelt “dyker” or “dykker,’ and the market-toll was a penny each 
“‘dyker.” See the Durham Household Book, 1530-1534, pp. 107, 205, 
where this word frequently occurs. 
