They enter the miserable kraals of the natives, and often carry off their children.

It is positively true that hundreds of children have been destroyed by hyenas in Southern Africa! It is difficult for you to comprehend why this is permitted--why there is not a war of extermination carried on against the hyenas, until these brutes are driven out of the land.

You cannot comprehend such a state of things, because you do not take into account the difference between savage and civilised existence.

You will suppose that human life in Africa is held of far less value than it is in England; but if you thoroughly understood political science, you would discover that many a law of civilised life calls for its victims in far greater numbers than do the hyenas.

The empty review, the idle court fete, the reception of an emperor, all require, as their natural sequence, the sacrifice of many lives!.