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is the deer or the goat, those harmless creatures 

 that seem made to embellish nature. These are 

 either pursued or surprised, and afford the most 

 agreeable repast to their destroyers. The most 

 usual method,i with even the fiercest animals, is to 

 hide and crouch near some path frequented by 

 their prey, or some water where cattle come to 

 drink, and seize them at once with a bound. The 

 lion and the tiger leap twenty feet at a spring ; 

 and this, rather than their swiftness or strength, 

 is what they have most to depend upon for a sup- 

 ply. There is scarcely one of the deer or hare 

 kind, that is not very easily capable of escaping 

 them by its swiftness ; so that whenever any of 

 these fall a prey, it must be owing to their own 

 inattention. 



But there is another class of the carnivorous 

 kind that hunt by the scent, and which it is 

 much more difficult to escape. It is remarkable, 

 that all animals of this kind pursue in a pack, 

 and encourage each other by their mutual cries. 

 The jackall, the syagush, the wolf, and the dog, 

 are of this kind ; they pursue with patience rather 

 than swiftness ; their prey flies at first, and leaves 

 them for miles behind ; but they keep on with a 

 constant steady pace, and excite each other by a 

 general spirit of industry and emulation, till at 

 last they share the common plunder. But it too 

 often happens, that the larger beasts of prey, 

 when they hear a cry of this kind begun, pursue 

 the pack, and when they have hunted down the 

 animal, come in and monopolize the spoil. This 

 has given rise to the report of the jackall's being 



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