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The Hyaena-Dog, the Lynx, the Wild Cat, 

 and the Otter 



Till-, sio'ht ot a pack ot hyama-doo's {I. \caou pictut) 

 after their prey is one not easily forgotten. I ; or 

 the most part I have ha<l only fleeting glimpses of them, 

 whether on the plains or on the caravan-roads by the 

 coast, or by the marshes, as they rushed alter their quarry 

 in lon^" springs, two or three close on the track, the others 

 following close behind, so as to cut oil the retreat it 

 necessarv. I he wonderful picture.: ol this chase passes 

 (|iiickly under a whirlwind ot dust, and is more divined 

 than perceived, only the heads ot the prey and pursuers 

 rising now and a^ain above the reeds in tin marsh. It 

 passes before one like a phantom. 



1 have found the hyiena-do^ very rare m those districts 

 through which I have travelled. This has h< en the experi- 

 ence also of trustworthy observers in I>ntish Kast Africa. 



All kinds of L^'ame, even the strongest antelopes, tall 

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