[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] There are Chris-tians who say that they have seen the skins of this species of animal, but without the horns." He also speaks of " a bird of prey which has a head like the head of a large cat "—probably a reference to the cat-owl. His remarks about the beaver, based upon personal study and knowledge, are singularly interesting. The deer, he informs us, " are incredibly numerous in this country. Although the Indians through-out the year, and every year (but mostly in the fall), kill many thou-sands, and the wolves, after the fawns are cast and while they are young, also destroy many, still the land abounds with them every-where, and their numbers appear to remain undiminished." Being finally granted leave to go back to New Netherland, Van der Donck applied to the West India Company for permission to practice his profession of lawyer in the province. But the company, careful in conceding substantial favors to a man who had caused it so much trouble, allowed him only to give advice in the line of his profes-sion, forbidding him to plead, on the novel ground that, " as there was no other lawyer in the colony, there would be none to oppose him." After his return to New Amsterdam he did not figure prominently in public affairs. He died in 1655, leaving, it is supposed, several chil-dren, whose names, however, as well as all facts of their subsequent lives and traces of their descendants, are unknown.