AAS 
Cnce as we were hunting the wild- 
boar, we were all furprifed that our 
horfes made a ftand\on the fudden, and 
the dogs crept under our horfes legs. We 
prefently cried out one to the other, ‘+ Cer- 
tainly there is a lion hereabouts 5°’ and in 
truth we were not a little affrighted to fee 
one pafs by us, within fifteen or twenty 
paces of us. He ftopped to view us, and 
feeing we ftirred not, he walked on very 
Rtately. _He was higher than any of our 
horfes, and marched with a moft majeftic 
gravity, fwinging about in a terrible 
manner his great tufted tail. We knew 
the nature of alion is not to fuffer any 
either to fly from him or to attack him, 
for whoever doth fo, in three leaps he 
mof affuredly feizes upon him: wherefore 
we durft not venture to fiioot at him, and 
to fy from him was impofiible, for the 
moft courageous horfes tremble likea leaf 
at the fight of a lion. 
Mr. Anthony Caliron, of Montpelier, 
and Mr. Abraham Vanlyberger, of Rou- 
én, who both loved hunting very well, 
being informed that there was a pond 
whereat lions and wild-boars came in the 
night to drink, they agreed to go there 
and build a hut in the day; and wait in it 
all night, and kill thefe creatures as faft 
as they cameto drink. ‘This defign fue- 
ceeded fo well, that they. defroyed four- 
teen lions and wild-boars, and flayed the 
Jargefi, bringing away their fkins with 
them. 
The following ftory was related to me 
in that country by very credible perfons. 
About the year 1614 or 1615, two 
Chrifiian flaves at Morccco refolving to 
make their efcape, agreed to do it by 
night, and to travel ail the night, and in 
the day-time to hide themfelves in the tops 
of the trees, that they might not be difco- 
ered by the Arabs, who would certainly 
have brought them back into flavery. 
‘They knew that the fea-coaft lay from 
them juft north, and that in eight or ten 
days they might get thither, and that it 
would net be very difficult for them to 
carry or find out provifions for fo fhort a 
time. According to their defign they 
efcaped by night, and having travelled 
till day-break, they then climbed up a 
tree, where they pafied the day but me- 
lancholy, being much troubled and affliét- 
ed to fee the Arabs pafs frequently by 
them ; befides, 2s foon as it was known 
in Morccco that two flaves were run away, 
prefently feveral horfemen went out in 
fearch of them. But when night came, 
the two flaves continued on their jourhey 
ull the next morning, and then fecking 
Londiniana. 
[Mareh 1, 
out for a tree to hide themfelves, they 
were aftonifhed to fee a great lion juft by 
them, which walked when they walked, 
and ftood ftil] when they ftood fill. Ob- 
ferving which, they concluded that this 
was a fafe-condudt fent them by Provi- 
dence, and then they took courage, and 
travelled _in the day time, in company 
with the lion. When the horfemen who 
went in purfuit of them overtook them, 
and would have feized on them, the lion 
interpofed himfelf, which made the horfe- 
men ftand fiill, who, being ftruck with 
admiration, let them pafs on. ‘The like 
did feveral others ; for every day thefe 
poor fugitives met with fome or other who 
attempted to feize them, till at laft they 
reached the fea-fide in fafety, where the 
lion left them, and they went into the 
town of Mafagan. ‘There the two poor 
flaves related this miracle, which was con- 
firmed at Merceco by the Arabs who re-~ 
turned from purfuing them, and the news 
of this was difperfed every where as a 
great and conftant truth. 
T was told the following ftory by my 
intimate friend Paul Le Bel, called Tager 
Paulo (Yager fignifying a merchant),~in 
whofe place I remained when he went 
away from Morocco. 
About the year 1615, the whole town 
of Morocco (as he faid) went out to fee 
two terrible fierce creatures, a lion anda 
wild boar, which lay wounded in a tuft 
of reeds, hard-by the gate of the city, 
and died, tie one prefently after the other. 
The lion was rent up with the tufks of 
the wild-boar, and the boar torn in pieces 
with the teeth and claws of the lion. 
They had fought all the night in the tuft 
of reeds, which they had beaten down 
and trampled on, which all the Chriftians, 
Moors, and Jews, went to fee; for in 
thofe countries the wild-boars are moft 
furious creatures, efpecially in brimming. 
;:me, which is about March. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
LONDINIANA. 
No. III. 
CHARING-CROSS. 
aur CROSS, as it ftood be. 
fore the civil-wars, .was one of thofe 
beautiful Gothic obelifks erefted to con= 
jugal affeétion by Edward I., who built 
fuch an one wherever the hearfe of his be- 
loved Eleanor refted in its way from Lin- 
colnfhire to Weftminfter. But neither 
its ornamental fituation, the beauty of its 
ftructure, nor the noble defign of its erec- 
tion (which did honour to humanity), 
could 
