164 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



earth, which they cover with boughes, sticks, and earth, 

 so weakly, that if the beast chance at any time to come 

 upon it, she, and her young ones fall down into the pit, 

 and are taken. 



"This cruell, untamable, impatient, violent, ravening, 

 and bloody beast, perceiving that her natural strength 

 cannot deliver her from the wit and policy of men, her 

 hunters, (for being inclosed, she can never get out 

 againe) the hunters being at hand to watch her down- 



fall, and worke her overthrowe, first of all to save her 

 young ones from taking and taming, she destroyed! 

 them all with her own teeth ; for there was never any 

 of them taken alive, and when she seeth the hunters 

 come about her, she roareth, cryeth, howleth, brayeth, 

 and uttereth such a fearefull, noysome, and terrible 

 clamor, that the men which watch to kill her, are not 

 thereby a little amazed; but, at last, being animated, 



