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 an oath, that a sea-fight was a mighty sairious sort of a thing.

 

The Missionary Anderson says of the country about the Zak river, in South Africa, (or British Africa, as it may now be called,) that there is very little to entertain a stranger there, excepting the wild beasts. The sort of entertainment which they can afford would be the very last, one should suppose, that either man or horse would wish to meet with.

Some ingenious methods of destroying wild beasts are described in Captain Williamson's Oriental Sports, a book which has more interesting facts in it than many a graver work upon India. He tells us, that "when the track of a tyger has been ascertained, which though not invariably the same, may yet be known sufficiently for the purpose, the peasants collect a quantity of 