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coast of Africa : the hurricane called tornado, its dreadful 

 effects, i. 306. 



Huso, the isinglass fish, caught in great quantities in the 

 Danube, from October to January : furnishes the commo- 

 dity called isinglass : often above four hundred pounds 

 weight : its flesh salted is better tasted, and turns red like 

 salmon, v. 102. 



Hyaena, no words give an idea adequate to this animal's figure, 

 deformity, and fierceness : more savage and untameable than 

 any quadruped : its description : defends itself against the 

 lion, is a match for the panther, and attacks the ounce, 

 which it seldom fails to conquer : an obscene and solitary 

 animal : its first howl sometimes mistaken for the voice of a 

 man moaning : its latter like the violent efforts of retching : 

 whence it first took its name : native of the torrid zone, re- 

 sides in the caverns of mountains, the clefts of rocks, or dens 

 it has formed under earth : taken ever so young, it never 

 can be tamed : it sometimes attacks man, and carries off cat- 

 tle : its eyes shine by night ; and it is asserted that it sees 

 better by night than by day : scrapes up graves, and de- 

 vours dead bodies, how putrid soever: absurdities of the 

 ancients about this animal, iii. 62, &c. 



Jabiru, and jabira andjabira-gitacu, birds of the crane kind, 

 natives of Brasil : their descriptions, iv. 312. 



Jackalls hunt in a pack, and encourage each other by mutual 

 cries : what has given rise to the report of its being the lion's 

 provider, ii. 161. Travellers have mistaken the jackall for 

 the fox, iii. 53. One of the commonest wild animals in the 

 East, yet scarce any less known in Europe, or less dis- 

 tinctly described by natural historians : its description : its 

 cry a lamentation resembling that of human distress : is more 

 noisy in its pursuits than the dog, more voracious than the 

 wolf: never goes alone, but always in a pack of forty or 

 fifty together : seems little afraid of man : pursues its game 

 to the doors, without apprehension : enters insolently into 

 sheep-folds, yards, and stables, and finding nothing else, 

 devours leather harnesses, boots, and shoes : scratches up 

 new made graves, and devours the corpse, how putrid 

 soever : the corpse how dug up : follows armies, and keeps 

 in the rear of caravans: the most putrid substances it greedi- 

 ly devours : hides in holes by day, and appears abroad at 

 night-fall : hunts by the scent : irreconcileable antipathy 

 between it and the dog : no wonder it be voracious, and 

 why : is as stupid as impudent : instance of it : Indian pea- 

 sants often chase it as we do foxes, 54, &c. 



