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birds are also called penguins, and cannot die ; there 
is more meat in one of them than in a goose. The 
Frenchmen that fish neere the Grand Bank doe bring 
small store of flesh with them, but do victuall them- 
selves alwayes with these birdes.” 
The point of view from which the lion or tiger 
looks on man, is perhaps not so far removed from 
that of the non-carnivorous creatures as might be 
supposed. Man is certainly not the natural food of 
any animal — except of sharks and alligators, if he is 
so rash as to go out of his native element into theirs 
— and if the item “ man ” were subtracted from the 
bill-of-fare of all the carnivora, they would never want 
a meal. The notion of the natural attitude of a lion 
to a young lady, — 
“When as that tender virgin he did spye, 
Upon her he did run full greedily, 
To have at once devoured her tender corse,” 
is still popular, but hardly correct. More probably 
the lion would get out of the way politely, — if we may 
judge by the pacific behaviour of those in our last- 
explored lion - haunt, Mashonaland. M. Georges 
Leroy’s contention for the natural affinity, or semi- 
sympathy, which should exist between man and the 
intelligent hunting animals, is no doubt partly reason- 
able. Leigh Hunt, when recording his impressions 
of a visit to the Zoological Gardens, was unpleasantly 
struck by the incongruity of the notion of being eaten 
by a wild beast, — “ the hideous, impracticable felloiv- 
creature , looking one in the face, struggling with us, 
