THE SEA-SERPENT—MANY OCCASIONS ON WHICH IT HAS BEEN SEEN—CONSCIENTIOUS SCEPTICISM OF SCIENTIFIC MEN—A FIGHT BETWEEN MONSTERS—THE LARGEST LAND-SERPENT—SNAKES AND SNAKE-STONES—MEDICAL EVIDENCE—A COLONIAL REMEDY 267 CHAPTER XXIV HUNTING RUSES AMONGST THE HIGHER ANIMALS—WOLVES, FOXES, AND JACKALS—UNTEMPERED JUSTICE—GESTURE-LANGUAGE IN MEN AND DOGS—THE CAPE HUNTING-DOG AND HIS PREY 279 CHAPTER XXV MAN AND BEAST IN THE FAR NORTH—TRAPS THAT ARE SEEN THROUGH—A NEW DISCOVERY—CUNNING OF ARCTIC FOXES—THE TRAPPER AND THE WOLVERINE 294 CHAPTER XXVI MAN-EATING ANIMALS—THE TIGER’S SLAVE—A SAVAGE LION-HUNT—WOLF-REARED CHILDREN—MEN AND APES—A SHAM GORILLA—UNPROHIBITED MURDER—A MONKEY’S MALISON 308 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. ALLIGATOR AND PECCARY _Frontispiece_ PAGE 2. EAGLE ATTACKING AN OSPREY 34 3. BEAR BESET BY WILD SWINE 82 4. MALDONADA AND THE PUMA 88 5. SPIDERS AS PETS 168 6. OTTER AND SALMON 174 7. BEAVERS TREE-FELLING 194 8. A BRAVE WALRUS 210 9. JAGUAR ATTACKED BY PECCARIES 224 10. COMBAT OF WHALE AND SWORD-FISH 260 11. WOLF PLEADING FOR LIFE 282 12. SABLE ANTELOPE AND WILD DOGS 292 13. WOLVERINE STEALING A GRIDIRON 304 14. A LION HUNT 310 15. MIDNIGHT ASSASSINS 316 16. GORILLAS FIGHTING 326 THE ROMANCE OF THE ANIMAL WORLD CHAPTER I A MICROSCOPIC COMBAT—A SNAIL’S FRIENDSHIP—HERMIT-CRAB AND SEA-ANEMONE IN PARTNERSHIP—A CRAB IN AMBUSH—CRABS THAT EAT COCOANUTS.