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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 fellow- 
creature , looking one in the face, struggling with us, 
