ii4^ tRAVfiLSlN 
Engllfh] high, ta the top of the fliouldei% dtii 
ten feet eight inches [eleven feet four inches] 
long, from the point of the nofe to the extre-' 
mity of the tail* 
When the animal was flayed, Kkas very 
naturally threw the fkin over his flioolders to 
carry it to the kraal, Wliither he was accom- 
panied with fhouts .by all the horde. He him- 
felf trod like a hero. I obferved this new^ 
Alcides; and, diftant as I was from the lions 
of Nemea, the refemblance was fo ftrlking^ 
that I caught myfelf marching gravely in the 
midft of this renewal of the Grecian feftivaL^ 
If my Klaas obtained not all the honours of the 
fon of Alcmena, it was apparently becaufe a 
more powerful deity had direfted his arm. I 
too had fome ihare in the bufmefs ; the plan 
of the attack was mine, and in confequence I 
was loaded with thanks arid praifes. 
The chief requefted me to accept four fiieep 
and a couple of oxen in the name of the horde, 
as a teftimony of its gratitude. The ilieep I 
immediately killed, to add to the entertainment 
which the lionefs was to furnifh : but the two 
oxen I gave up to Klaas, who in fad had well 
earned them. At firft he refufed, and pel- 
