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getables. The voice of the Jackal is described as 

 peculiarly hideous, consisting of a kind of mix- 

 ture of howling and indistinct barking. These 

 animals frequently go in great troops, to hunt 

 their prey, and by their dreadful yellings alarm 

 and put to flight deer, antelopes, and other timid 

 quadrupeds ; while the Lion,, instinctively attend- 

 ing to the clamour, is said to follow till the Jack- 

 als have hunted down the prey, and, having sa- 

 tiated himself, leaves only the mangled remains 

 to be devoured by the Jackals. 



It is for this reason that the Jackal is popularly 

 termed the Lion's Provider. When pressed by 

 hunger, Jackals have been frequently known to 

 enter towns and devour indiscriminately whatever 

 animal substance they can find. They coihmit 

 ravages among the flocks, kill fowls, c. and have 

 been known to attack mankind. 



There is great reason for supposing this animal 

 to be the real origin of the Dog, since almost all 

 its manners and propensities are the same. When 

 taken young, it is easily tamed ; attaches itself to 

 mankind, distinguishes its master, comes on being 

 called by its name, shews an attachment to Dogs, 

 instead of flying from them, and has all the other 

 particularities of character by which the Dog is 

 distinguished : amongst others, the important ob- 

 servation of Professor GuLdenstedt, who has given 

 an accurate description of the Jackal in the Pe- 

 tersburgh Transactions, should by no means be 

 omitted, viz. that the Jackal and Dog agree in 

 the structure of the coecum or short intestine, and 



