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in their pace, and altogether inactive; I have 

 often seen a few terriers keep them at bay, and 

 bite them severely by the hind quarters; their 

 jaws, however, are exceedingly strong, and a 

 single bite, without holding on, more than a few 

 seconds, is sufficient to kill a large dog. They 

 stink horribly, make no earths of their own, but 

 lie under rocks, or resort to the earths of wolves, 

 as foxes do to those of badgers, and it is not 

 uncommon to find wolves and hyenas in the same 

 bed of earths. 



I was informed by several gentlemen, whose 

 veracity I could not doubt, that Captain Richards, 

 of the Bengal Native Infantry, had a servant of 

 the tribe of Shecarries, who was in the habit of 

 going into the earths of wolves, fastening strings 

 on them, and on the legs of hyenas, and then 

 drawing them out ; he constantly supplied his 

 master and the gentlemen at the station with them, 

 who let them loose on a plain, and rode after them 

 with spears, for practice and amusement. This 

 man possessed such an acute and exquisite sense 

 of smelling, that he could always tell by it, if 

 there were any animals in the earths, and could 

 distinguish whether they were hyenas or wolves. 

 What makes it the more extraordinary, is, that 



