2 FOXES AT HOME. 



in the leg, with large and almost transparent 

 ears, and great round sloe-black eyes, which 

 shine like those of a gazelle. 



In Egypt proper, and round Cairo, the fox is 

 v^ery like the common English fox, and we 

 hunted him there with a pack of foxhounds in 

 the '' eighties " ; but the sport was poor, as we 

 ran from one cotton field to another. There was 

 no jumping and little or no scent, no matter 

 how early one started; but, like ''the Drag," it 

 gave one an excuse for galloping over our 

 neighbours' fields, which the '' fellaheen " did 

 not at all appreciate I 



When quartered in the Palace of Zafferan at 

 Abbassiyeh, outside Cairo, one could always, on 

 looking out of the windows in the morning, see 

 foxes lying under the orange trees and shrubs 

 in the Khedive's garden underneath, but, as a 

 rule, they were mangy brutes, and when dis- 

 turbed either went to ground in the water-pipes 

 under the road, or scampered away across the 

 desert to the Mokhattem heights close by. 



The Cyprus fox greatly resembles the large 

 light-coloured animal of the Soudanese desert, 

 evidently belonging to the same species, and 

 I never saw any other kind in the island. 



