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the youngest brother crept as softly into it : the 

 monster's head still reposed upon the block of 

 wood ; in a moment it was blown into a thousand 

 pieces; and the brothers, afterwards cutting the 

 body into four parts, laid one in each quarter of 

 the wood." 



From that time only were dogs brought into 

 subjection to men; and the inhabitants of Ja- 

 maica would never have been able to subdue 

 those ferocious animals, if Tiger had not been 

 killed and quartered by Sarah Winyan's brothers. 

 As to the aunt, she received the punishment which 

 she merited, but I cannot remember what it was 

 exactly. Probably, the brothers killed and quar- 

 tered fier as well as her four-footed ally : or, per- 

 haps, she was turned into a wild beast, and supplied 

 the vacancy left by Tiger, as was the case with the 

 celebrated Zingha, queen of Angola; who, although 

 she embraced Christianity on her death-bed, and 

 died according to the most orthodox forms of the 

 Romish religion, still had conducted herself in 

 such a manner while alive, that shortly after her 

 decease, the kingdom being ravaged by a hyena f 

 her subjects could not be persuaded but that the 

 soul of this most Christian queen had transmigrated 

 into the body of the hyena. Yet this was surely 

 doing the hyena great injustice ; for she, at least, 

 had never been in the habit of composing oint- 

 ments by pounding little children in a mortar with 

 her own hands ; an amusement which Zingha had 



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