( 2,4 3 0 ) 
Mafts, Rigging* Anchors, &c. they fopply ’em for their' 
Money out of their Stores. 
Inftead of Cuftoms and Excite, they ufe Monopolies $ 
for the Monopolies of Wine of the Growth of the Place 
this Year 1706, was paid 39000 Gilders, imported Bran- 
dy 3000, and fo of the reft. 
All the Publick Payments they make, are either for 
the Watch, or for killing of Lyons, 20 Dollars Reward 
being given for killing a Lyon, and io for a Tyger$ the- 
latter they Hunt, but the former they only dare attempt 
by Stratagem, whom they thus deftroy : When a Lyon 
in the Night time gets among their Cattle, he commonly 
kills more than he eats at that time, whether he leldom 
fails to return the next Night to eat up the reft \ but be- 
fore he comes, they take care to fet Snares about the Prey 
with Mufquets fo difpos’d, that in coming at it, he muft 
ofneceffity draw the Trickers, the Muzzles being fo 
planted, as that they feldom mifs him ; but if he be not 
kill’d out right, the poor Mufquets are fare to feel his 
Fury, for he gnaws the Stocks, and imprints the marks 
of his Teeth in the very Iron $ and tho’ they are able to 
go away, there they are known to watch for two or three 
days to fee who comes to look after the Execution, whom 
they fet upon if they be not well . aware. 
A fort of Pilgrims in the Eaji Indies, whom' they call 
Fouqmers i and who often have occafion to Travel thro’ 
Deferts, have a ftrange dexterity in killing thefe Wild 
Beafts-5 for when he fees one of them making towards 
him, he faces him, kneeling. on one Knee, and bolds to- 
wards him a ftiort Spear in his Left Hand, upon which* 
the Beaft making a Leap at him, pitches and fixes his Bo- 
dy, and then he runs down his Throat a Ponyard which 
he canies in his Walking- Staff, and fo kills him. I had 
the following, concerning a Tyger, from an Eye Wit* 
nefs. 
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