THE WOLF. 
283 
of horror to ignorant people, who are always 
prone to attribute to magic all that seems 
to them unnatural or unaccountable in the 
beings by which they are surrounded. The 
Hottentots have the same idea with regard 
to their great enemy the lion; and we have 
seen the East Indians singeing the whiskers 
of the newly-killed tiger to prevent him 
from haunting them.” 
“Are there many wolves still remaining 
in Europe?” asked Eichard. “I supposed 
they would be almost exterminated,—from 
the western part at least.” 
“ There are none remaining in the British 
Islands. Sir Ervan Cameron, a Scotch 
gentleman, killed the last wolf in Great 
Britain in 1680; but so late as 1710 wolves 
were slain in Ireland. In France and Spain 
they still abound to such a degree as to 
be very dangerous at times, particularly in 
winter, and that not only to herds but to 
men. The wolves of Spain are black, very 
large, (many of them being too heavy to be 
lifted by a man,) and remarkably bold and 
furious. Their chief haunts are in the 
mountains, where, as soon as it grows dark, 
they may be seen by the side of the road, 
