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NEIGHBORS WITH CLA WS AND HOOFS. 



already described. His feet are all four- toed ; his body 

 slopes back from the shoulders ; his neck wears a bushy 

 mane. In disposition and appetite he is ferocious and 

 ravenous, and he can not be tamed. Bruce says of the 

 hyena, in his " Travels " : ik We have no reason to attribute 



extraordinary wisdom to him. He is, on the contrary, 

 brutish, indolent, slovenly, and impudent, and seems to 

 possess the manners of the wolf. His courage has nothing 

 of the brave in it, and he dies oftener flying than fighting. 

 14. " In Barbary I have seen the Moors in the day- 

 time take this animal by the ears and pull him toward 

 them without his attempting any other resistance than 

 that of drawing back ; and the hunters, when his cave is 

 large enough to give them admittance, take a torch in 

 their hand and go straight to him, when they throw a 

 blanket over him and drag him out." 



