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this famous Beast, and having laid a Snare for hiin, he was 

 taken and kill'd. I have seen his Skin, which was nail'd 

 against a Board as one enters the Fort. There is Icept the 

 Skin of another Lion who was found dead, having four 

 Porcupine's quills sticking on it ; and of a wild Horse that 

 was kill'd in the Woods. He had no Tail, and was spotted 

 like a Leopard.^ 



The Tigres of this Country are very small, whereas they 

 are exceeding large in the Island of Java. The Dogs who 

 tho' never so strong and numerous, dare not pursue a Lion, 

 hunt boldly these little Tigres. When these Beasts can get 

 into any Park, they strangle abundance of Deer,'' but only 

 suck their Blood, unless they are exceeding hungry. 



The Company gives twenty Crowns to any one that kills 

 a Lion, and ten to him that kills a Tigre, wliich has 

 occasion'd many Stratagems to be invented for taking those 

 Beasts.^ For Example one is. That they tie a piece of Flesli 



1 " On entering the fortress through the Castle- gate (where there 

 every now and then a couple of lion's skins hang up), one comes upon 

 a large courtyard." (Valeatyn, /. c, p. 14.) Valentyn also states : 

 " Captain Olof Berg has told me that he once shot a lion right through 

 the heart, which lion, however, lived several hours afterwards, and 

 dragged itself from two to four hundred paces from the spot and theu 

 died. The gentleman followed its track in order to cut it up. Its fat 

 is a splendid curative, and its flesh, like that of other wild animals 

 (tigers, leopards, etc.), is said to taste nice. In the gate of the Fort 

 there hangs the skin of a huge lion with five quills of a porcupine stuck 

 through it." (//>iti., /. c, p. 113.) 



" In May 1694 a burgher at Drakenstein was killed by a leopard, 

 and another at Stellenbosch was nearly torn to pieces by a Hon. On 

 one day in the following month nine cows were killed by lions in sight 

 of the castle. The premium for killing a lion in Cape peninsula was 

 £5 45. 2(Z. As late as 1702 an elephant was killed just beyond the 

 Cape flats." (Theal, History of South Africa, vol. ii, ja. 7.) 



^ In French text: " Moutons." 



3 "A tax was levied by the Dutch Company under the denomination 

 of lion and tiger-money ; this tax was paid by each burgher, at the 

 rate of four rix-dollars for liou, and two gilders for tiger-money ; out 

 of this fund, at the time when the colony began to extend itself, and 



