[10] Wanderings in South America.
[11] They had been noticed long before Bates’ paper, which was later, if I mistake not, than The Origin of Species.
[12] The Rev. J. G. Wood, in Homes without Hands, p. 301.
[13] Were the pilot-fish to eat alone, he would not be under the shark’s protection.
[14] From an old translation.
[15] A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa.
[16] The gun is set with great exactitude and on a nice calculation, so that the fox, if shot at all, is shot in the head. He dies, therefore, suddenly, and without pain, whilst not expecting it—which some think the best kind of death.
[17] The string must run, for a little way, behind the trigger (before passing round a stick) in order to start the gun: and it is this part of it that the fox gnaws. If we assume it to do so, as believing the trigger to be the part of the gun from which the discharge comes, still there are the two ideas—to gnaw the string, namely, thus preventing the discharge, and to get behind the trigger whilst gnawing it.
[18] The word was used by the Portuguese in their great days, and may have come from a West Coast tribe. It is unknown, I believe, to the Kaffirs of South Africa.
[19] Or, as we are told now, the palm of the hand.