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clemency I will not say) desired tlie keeper to be 

 cast off and go to his friend. It is impossible to 

 describe the joy evinced by the lion ; he licked with 

 care the mangled and bleeding back of the cruelly 

 treated seaman, caressed him with his paws, which 

 he folded around the man as if to defy any one re- 

 newing a similar treatment, and it was only after 

 several hours that 'Prince 1 would allow the keeper 

 to quit his protection, and return among those who 

 had so ill-used him." 



The lion, moreover, on meeting a^ain after 

 lengthened absence with his former master or keeper, 

 not unfrequently evinces the greatest possible plea- 

 sure. This was remarkably shown in the case of an 

 animal named " Hubert," reared from infancy by 

 M. Gerard, but from whom he had been hmir sepa- 

 rated. The touching scene that occurred when they 

 again met, which was at the J<rr<liit '/>'x /'/<n//V.s', 

 in Paris, is thus described by the bold hunter. 



"On entering the gallery called <A'.s /vr/Vx /iV<><v>-, I 

 was surprised at the state of the cages in which the 

 animals are condemned to live in fatal inactivity. I 

 was painfully impressed, especially by the pestilential 

 odour they exhale, causing a corrupt atmosphere, 

 which the hv;enas, dirtv and impure beasts if ever 

 there were anv, mav perhaps endure, but which 

 must necessarilv destroy the lions and panthers, 

 those splendid animals, with their neat, well polished 

 coats, who are cleanliness itself. 



" While still under the painful influence which 

 had oppressed me at my entrance, I was slowly 

 progressing towards my lion's cage. 



