AND LOWER EGYPT. I4I 



given to the jackal in Egypt isdeib: the fellah, or 

 the peasantry of the country, likewise call them, 

 alter some popular legend no doubt, abou Soliman, 

 Soliman's father. 



These ferocious animals are not afraid of ad- 

 vancing close up to Alexandria ; they traverse its 

 enclosure during the night; they frequently spring 

 over it by the breaches made in the wall ; they en- 

 ter into the city itself in quest of their prey, and fill 

 it with their cries : a species of association worthy 

 of the men by whom it was inhabited. 



But an animal more gentle, and at the same time 

 more extraordinary, which occupies subterraneous 

 apartments in the vicinity of Alexandria, is the 

 gerboise or jerbo. 



