MAQ2. Jrom Isabella to Albert. XG. 
when only one is by itself; but when a pack of 
these brutes are together, the monkey anticks of one 
raises the spirits of the others to such a degree, thag 
there is no other resource but silence to escape from 
them. 
‘ But of all their antipathies, that which they 
have against the fox is the greatest; and this rage 
has a sort of periodical paroxysms. It generally 
breaks forth with great fury every year, about the 
beginning of winter, and continues with intermifsi- 
ons till the spring. On these occasions, you may see 
troops of these creatures afsemble together, like the 
gathering of lapwings before they leave us in au- 
tumn, on purpose to search for foxes wherever they 
can befound. When going on such expeditions, they 
seize the fleetest horses they can find; and they have 
also the art of training upa kind of dog to afsist 
them. At that season they will think nothing of 
running forty or fifty miles from their native haunts 
in search of prey ; and when they discover a fox, 
they set up sucha halloo, and ride with such ungover- . 
nable fury, that you would think as many devils had 
escaped from the infernal regions, and were set a 
scampering through this globe. If, after long fatigue, 
they kill the fox, the poor animal is carried in tri- 
_umph to the nearest den they can find, where they 
_ give a loose to their.joy, and indulge in every excef¢ 
that their nature is capable of. ' 
.* I might mention several other characteristic 
marks of this brute; but these traits will be suffici- 
' ent to enable your brother to know if any of them 
have ever been seen in your ¢ountry. I have heard 
