is seen to be serious.  In the Mokuea neighborhood each village has its panther-killer, an enterprising man set apart for a profession which sometimes becomes hereditary.  One of these boasts of having killed thirty-six panthers.  His father before him had bagged seventy-five, and he hoped before pulling his final trigger to have done as well.  This expectation was a just one, as at twenty-eight he had already nearly halved the paternal count.  The method of hunting is very simple.  The sportsman fixes a bleating little victim from the herd at the foot of a tree, and climbs with his flint gun into the branches.  Had the North African beast the arboreal habits of the South African tree-leopard or the American jaguar, this proceeding would be less effectual with him.  But he can neither climb nor reflect like his countryman the monkey, and is picked off like a beef.  One finds it difficult to get up sympathy for an animal so little able to take care of himself, or to suppose that panthers could have furnished a particularly high-spiced ingredient to the enjoyments of the Roman arena.  An English bull-dog, if less picturesque, would have been far more fruitful of fighting.

Products edible neither to the wild beast nor the tooth of time are the Kabyle vases in clay.  The amphorae in common use by the women for carrying water are generally of graceful forms, comparing well in design with many of the archaic vases of Greece and the Levant.  The patterns vary somewhat with the locality, but there is a resemblance which speaks of a common origin and taste.  Those of the Beni-Raten all come to a blunt point at the bottom, and will not stand unsupported.  The jar is made to rest upon the girdle of the bearer, while she supports it upon her back by one or both of the handles.  Among the tribes nearer the Djurjura the jar has a broader and hollowed bottom, fitted to rest upon the head of the woman.  It must therefore be less elongated and more rotund to admit of her reaching the handles for the purpose of balancing it.  These jars weigh, filled with water, sixty pounds.  In carrying one of them a Kabyle woman, it may easily be supposed, is not in a condition to study lightness of step or grace of carriage.  Yet this heavy task, to which she begins to accustom herself at the age of twelve, does not appear to injure her figure or health.  Such a result is more often due to violent and exceptional strains than to habitual exertion even greater in extent.  The muscles are not less susceptible of education than the mind.  Whatever brings out the full power of either without suddenly overtasking is healthy and beneficial.

It has been remarked that the most usual size of the Kabyle water-jar is as nearly as possible identical with the amphora kept for a standard measure in the Capitol at Rome.  This coincidence may well be due rather to a correspondence in the average strength of the carriers than to a common system of authorized measures.  In decoration the Kabyle vases approach the Arabic more than the Roman style.  But the feeling, both in form and coloring, is decidedly more artistic than in the similar ware of Northern Europe.