%S% SHIN-NAI, AND MON, 
reetly confessed it ; on which he was taKen into cii3»- 
tody, and soon after hanged for the crime. 
Shin-nai . 
It is said,, that in the great forests round Savanna- 
dnrga. there is a small animal called the shin-nai, 
or red dog, which fastens itself by surprise on the 
neck of the tiger, and kills him. On this account 
the tiger is not so common in these large forests, as 
in smaller woods. The shin-nai is quite distinct 
from the wild dog, which is said to be very common 
here, to grow to a large size, and to be very destruc- 
tive to sheep. By this wild dog the natives proba- 
bly mean the wolf. Dr. Buchanan saw native draw- 
ings of the shin-nai, which appear to presentan animal 
isot yet described 
JblON. 
Mr. Barrow relates the following story in his 
account of that journey in the south of Africa, in 
which the city of Lectakoo was discovered. 
One of the Hottentots (of Mr. Kicherer’s com- 
pany) was still smarting under the recent wounds 
received from a lion, which he had the misfortune 
to encounter, and from whose voracious fangs his 
escape was little less than miraculous. Having 
observed the fresh traces of a lion’s paws leading to 
the kraal where his master’s sheep were pent np 
by night, the Hottentot had placed what the Dutch 
call a stell-roer or trap-gun in the passage leading into 
the kraal, with a view to destroy the nightly de- 
spoiler. The following* morning, on going to the 
spot, he found the gun discharged, and, from the 
quantity of blood sprinkled on the ground, con- 
cluded that the contents must have been lodged in 
the body of the animal. Following the traces of 
