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That the Jackal is nearly allied to the Dog, has 

 been clearly proved from a circumstance related by 

 Mr. Hunter, of a female Jackal taken on board an 

 East-Indiaman at Bombay whilst a cub, and being 

 impregnated by a Dog during the voyage, brought 

 forth six puppies; one of which afterwards pro- 

 duced young ones, from an intercourse with a Dog. 

 From these and other recent facts, it appears, that 

 the Fox, the Wolf, the Jackal, and the Dog, may be 

 considered as different species of the same genus; 

 and that the Jackal makes nearer approaches to the 

 Dog than either the Fox or the Wolf. 



Jackals go in packs of forty or fifty, and hunt 

 like hounds in full cry from evening till morning. 

 They destroy the poultry, and attack the flocks: 

 they roam through the villages and gardens, and 

 carry off every thing they can eat: they enter 

 stables, yards, and outhouses, and devour skins, 

 and everything that is made of leather; such as 

 harnessing, boots, shoes, &c. Nothing can escape 

 their rapacity. They will ransack the repositories 

 of the dead, and greedily devour the most putrid 

 bodies; for which reason, in those countries where 

 they abound, the inhabitants are obliged to make 

 the graves of a great depth, and secure them with 

 spines, to prevent the Jackals from raking up the 

 earth with their feet. They are said to attend cara- 

 vans, and follow armies, in hopes of being furnished 

 with a banquet by disease or battle. They may be 

 considered as the vulture among quadrupeds; and 

 like that voracious bird, devour every thing indis- 

 criminately that has once had animal life. They 

 hide themselves in holes and dens by day, and 

 seldom appear abroad till the evening, when they 

 fill the air with the most horrid howlings, and 



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