244 'ROGUES' AND ' MAN-EATERS: 



the unwieldy form, — the water enters it, and the 

 animal cannot leave the stream to feed. All 

 Easterns, however, joining issue with the homoeo- 

 pathists, dread applying water to a wound, and 

 the Brazilian Tupys used to cure their hurts by 

 toasting them and by extracting the moisture 

 before the fire. The people of Mafiyah secure 

 him, I am told, by planting upright a gag of 

 sharpened and hardened stick in his jaws when 

 opened wide for attack : this improbable tale is 

 also told concerninor the natives of Kalvbia and 

 the Maidan Arabs of Assyria and their lions. 

 The cow is timid unless driven beyond endurance 

 or grossly insulted in the person of her calf : 

 the bulls arc more pugnacious, especially those 

 who, expelled by the herd, live in solitary dudgeon. 

 The ' rogue ' — generally derived from the Ilindo- 

 stani ' rogi,' sick or sorry — is found amongst 

 hippopotami, elk, deer, and other graminivors 

 as well as amongst elephants, lions, tigers, and 

 the larger carnivors. The ' rogU(^ ' hippopotamus 

 is an old male no longer able to hold his own 

 against the young adults, who naturally walk off 

 with his harem, and leave him in the surliest 

 state of widowerhood. The man-eating lion is 

 mostly some decrepit beast that finds it easier for 

 his stiff muscles and worn tusks to pull down a 



