AND LOWER EGYPT. 1 79 



Arabs who accompanied him, in killing them with 

 sticks, to prevent any injury being done to their 

 skins *. A little farther on he adds, that the Arabs 

 of the kingdom of Tripoli, who hunt the ante- 

 lope, find much amusement in teaching their grey 

 hounds to turn suddenly on the jerbo ; that a beau- 

 tiful little greyhound, presented to him by the 

 prince of Tunis, frequently afforded him the plea- 

 sure of this kind of hunting ; that the chase lasted 

 long, and that he has several times seen, in a large 

 court well enclosed, the greyhound a full quarter 

 of an hour on the pursuit before he could seize his 

 nimble preyf. All these circumstances, assuredly, 

 sufficiently demonstrate that the jerbos are not in- 

 disturbable sleepers in the daytime. 



The passage from M. Pallas, protracti in Jucem, 

 Sec. which you quote at full length, to run down 

 my assert ion, makes not the least against it; and this 

 remark will no more escape good zoologists than all 

 men of good sense, as, in this passage, the animal 

 in question is of a species and country different 

 from the mus jaculus of M. Pallas, that is to say, of 

 the alak-daaga, or gerboise of the north, which you 

 have taken too much pains to distinguish from the 

 jerbo, to admit of their ever being henceforward 



* Travels in Nubia and Abyssinia, by James Bruce, Esq. vol. 

 v. p. 149. 



t Id. ibid. vol. v. p. 15L 



n 2 confounded 



