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verance would ensure success, I set out next 

 morning to visit the abode of the wild dogs, 

 but our first visit was not attended with 

 any successful result ; only one dog made 

 its appearance, on the top of a rock some 

 distance above, and that but for a moment, 

 disappearing almost instantaneously. Within 

 a circumference of several hundred yards, 

 beneath almost every mass of broken rock, 

 was an outlet to some cavern, and all ap- 

 peared to be, or lately to have been, 

 occupied by the animals ; whilst well-trodden 

 paths, crossing from one to another, made 

 it apparent they were either visited in turn, 

 or inhabited indiscriminately. Broken pieces 

 of bone, and the hair or fur of various 

 animals, amongst which that of the musk- 

 deer was most conspicuous, were strewed 

 about ; but the only thing that seemed to 

 point out a cavern in which were young 

 ones, was that, from the mouth of one of the 

 largest, a narrow track led to a spot ten or 

 twelve yards distant, where a portion of 

 the skin and bones of a gooral were laid. 



