Ohfervations &:c. 245* 



oflner falling out, that Women as well as Men, have heQWiorafPire^ 

 devoured for Want of other Creatures. Fire is what they 

 are nioft afraid of; and yet notwithftanding all the Precaution 

 of the ^rdhs in this Refped, notwithftanding the Barking of 

 theirDogs,together with their ownCrys and Exclamations,all the 

 Night long, it frequently happens, that thefe ravenous Beafts, 

 out-braving all thefe Terrors, will leap into the Midft of a 

 Douwar, (where the Cattle are enclofed in the Night) and bring 

 out along with them a Sheep or a Goat. If thefe Ravages r-^'' '^^'v ?f 

 are repeated, then the v^r<2^j,obferving where they enter, dig 

 there a Pit, and, covering it over (lightly with Reeds, or fmall 

 Branches of Trees, in this Manner frequently decoy and catch 

 them. The Lyon's Flefli is in great Efteem, being fome what like 

 Veal hi Taft or Flavour. The Diftindtion of Animals feemsto 

 have been little known or attended to bv the antient Romans, 

 when, according to an Obfervation of Lipfius', they called 

 the Lyon a Bear, and the Panther a Rat of Africa. 



The Faadb [^j-*'] agreeth with the Leopard in being fpotted,2"«^Faadh,^ 

 but differeth in other Refpeds. For the Skin is not only of a 

 deeperColour but alfo much coarfer ; neither is theCreature Itfelf 

 of fo fierce a Nature. However the ^rahs imagine It to be a 

 fpurious Offspring betwixt a Lyon and a Leopardefs. It feeds, 

 as I have been informed, upon Carrion, fometimes upon Roots 

 and Herbs , like the Deeh and the Duhhah , and muft be in 

 great Neceffity when It attacks a Sheep or a Goat. It can then 

 be fcarce taken for the ©5? or Lupus Cer'varius of the Antients, ' 



which is defcribed to be a much fiercer Creature : the Chamus''«^ Chamus, 

 of Tliny feeming better to agree with it. 



There are two other Animals of this Country, that arer-6. /#r 

 marked like the Leopard , only their Spots are generally of ^^"^^"' 

 a darker Colour, and the Fur fomewhat longer and fofter. 

 The firft is of the Cat-Kind, about one third lefs than a full 

 grown Leopard, and may be taken for a Species of the Lynx, 

 or rather, ior thQ Ici^Qr Tant her ofOppian. 



I Peregrina cum ad Romanos advehebantufj ftupebant : & nome.n ijs dabant non fuum 

 fed obvium aliquod & e vicino fuo rure. ** Ira Pancheras vocarunt Mures , ut opinor, 

 Africanos ** Tale in Leonibus eft. Cum primum vifi, non Leories externo eos nomine in- 



{ignierunt, fed noto & domeftico Urfos. * Virgilium quidem, dum Aceftem regit Pelle 



Libjjiidos urfiA , certum mihi intellexiffe Leoninam &c. Y id. J. Lipf. Eled. 1.2. cap. 4. 

 2 Pompeij magni primum Ludi oftenderunt Qhaum, quern Galli Rhaphium vocabant, effigie 

 lupi, Pardorum maculis. PUn. 1.8. cap. ij>. 



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