268 HUNTING SPORTS OF THE WEST. 



dentally brought within sight of their cage, by grasping 

 the iron bars with their paws, and shaking them vio- 

 lently, to the great terror of spectators, who felt insecure 

 while witnessing such displays of their strength. In 

 instance, an unfortunate monkey was walking over the 

 top of the cage, when the end of the chain which hung 

 from his waist, dropped through within reach of the 

 bears ; they immediately seized it, dragged the scream- 

 ing animal through the narrow aperture, tore him limb 

 from limb, and devoured his mangled carcass almost in- 

 stantaneously. At another time, a small monkey thrust 

 his arm through an opening in the bear cage, to reach 

 after some object, one of them immediately seized him, 

 and, with a sudden jerk, tore the whole arm and shoulder 

 blade from the body, and devoured it before any one 

 could interfere. They were still cubs, and very little 

 more than half grown, when their ferocity became so 

 alarming as to excite continual apprehension lest they 

 should escape, and they were killed in order to prevent 

 such an event." 



Upon comparing the account of the soldier, who had 

 no " story" to tell, but simply the truth; with that of 

 the museum describer, in regard to these, the same ani- 

 mals, it cannot fail to strike the reader that there is a 

 wonderful coincidence between these and the accounts 

 of similar parties respecting the common hyaena. Every 

 one who knows anything about domestic economy in the 

 Dukhun, must be aware that the domestication of the 

 hyaena as a substitute for the dog, is a very common oc- 

 currence there ; and the memory which the hyaena at the 

 Zoological Gardens retained of the kindness of colonel 



