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wild animals fled for fear of it. The 

 farmers were rather friendly disposed to- 

 wards the Ma-hswing as it kept away the 

 other wild beasts which devoured their 

 crops and domestic animals, as its favorite 

 food was the deer and the wild pig, two of 

 the greatest and most persistent deprecators 

 known to the farmer. It would perhaps be 

 a reasonable supposition that the Ma-hswing 

 was a species of the African lion rather than 

 of the Asiatic, as the latter is supposed to 

 be maneless. It is certain that the lion 

 captured in Siam and taken to Paris did not 

 have any mane. And possibly the Ma- 

 hswing is not of the African species at all, 

 and different from the ordinary Asiatic 

 lion, may be a species new to science, 

 just as there are several very different 

 kinds of monkeys and pheasants in China, 

 not hitherto seen in other parts of the 

 world. There is a large monkey in lower 

 Kwei-chow called a Jen-hsuing, that is, 

 a man bear, and which may be akin to 

 what the Welshman called a Glen-tober, 

 which was declared to have " feet like hands 

 and hands like a people." 



Tiger : The tiger is known as the Ta- 

 mao, which is the native name for big-cat, 



