NATURAL HISTORY. 
both from the sea and the hills, 
very little rain falls. The coun- 
tries under the hills of Cashmeer, 
and those under Hindoo Coosh, 
(Pukhlee, Boonere, and Swaut) 
have all their share of the rains; 
but they diminish as we go west, 
and at Swaut are reduced toa 
month of clouds, with occasional 
showers. In the same month (the 
end of July and beginning of Au- 
gust) the monsoon appears in 
some clouds and showers at Pe- 
shawer, and in the Bungush and 
Khuttuk countries. Itis still less 
felt in the valley of the Caubul 
river, where it does not extend 
beyond Lughmann; but in Ba- 
jour and Punjcora, under the 
southern projection, in the part 
of the Caufir country, which is 
situated on the top of the same 
projection, and in Teera, situated 
in the angle formed by Tukhti 
Solimaun and its eastern branches, 
the south-west monsoon is heavy, 
and forms the principal rains of 
the year. There is rain in this 
season in the country of the Jau- 
jees and Torees, which probably 
is brought from the north by the 
eddy in the winds: but I have not 
information enough to enable me 
to conjecture whether that which 
falls in Bunno and the neigh- 
bouring countries is to be ascribed 
to this cause, or to the regular 
monsoon from the south-west. 
The regular monsoon is felt as 
' far west as the utmost boundary 
of Mekraun: it is not easy to fix 
its limits on the north-west with 
precision, but I have no accounts 
of it beyond a line drawn through 
the northern part of the table land 
of Kelaut and the northern parts 
of Shoraubuk of Pisheen, and 
of Zhobe, to the source of the 
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Koorum; it falls, however, in 
very different quantities in the va- 
rious countries south-east of that 
line. The clouds pass with little 
obstruction over Lower Sind, but 
rain more plentifully in Upper 
Sind and Domaun, where these 
rains, though not heavy, are the 
principal ones in the year, On 
the sea-coast of Luss and Mek- 
raun, on the other hand, they are 
arrested by the mountains, and 
the monsoon resembles that of In- 
dia. In Seweestaun the monsoon 
is probably the same as in Upper 
Sind and Domaun: in Boree itis 
only about a month of cloudy and 
showery weather: it is probably 
less in Zhobe: and in the other 
countries within the line it only ap- 
pears in showers, more precarious 
as we advance towards the north. 
SPOTTED HYENA. 
(From Lichtenstein’s Travels in 
Southern Africa, Vol. II.) 
The spotted hyena, hyéina 
crocuta, is here called simply 
the wolf. It is a very com- 
mon practice to call objects 
purely African by the name of 
any European object to which 
they have the nearest affinity, 
This animal is by far the most 
abundant of any among the 
beasts of prey in the colony, 
even in the chasms about the 
Table Mountain there are so 
many, that the farms nearest to 
the Cape Townare oftenextremely 
annoyed by them; nay, in the 
year 1804, it once happened that 
a hyena came by night absolutely 
into the town itself, as far as 
the hospital. These animals keep, 
in winter, about the heights of the 
