136 THE WOLVES. 
rally repel the attack, killing one or more of the 
enemy. Single horses fight a wolf by striking with’ 
the fore-feet. 
* Much of the ubiquity of the species in the nortb- 
ern hemisphere may be ascribed to its habit of fol- 
lowing the more collective movements of man ; for, 
allured by the scent of slaughter, by the numerous 
dead horses always left along the lines of operations 
of armies, wolves are known to follow in the rear to 
feed upon the carrion; and in India, there have 
been instances when they actually mixed with the 
train of attendants and carried off unguarded chil- 
dren. At other times they have attacked videttes, 
particularly in winter. During the last campaign 
of the French armies in the vicinity of Vienna, the 
Moniteur mentioned several of the outposts thus 
molested, and the videttes carried off, when a dead 
woif, and pieces of clothing, shewed what kind of 
enemy had been encountered. After the rout of 
the grand army in Russia, wolves of the Siberian 
race followed the Russians through Poland and - 
Germany to the borders of the Rhine. Specimens 
killed in the vicinity, and easily distinguished from 
the native breed, are still preserved in the museums 
of Neuwied, Frankfort, Cassel, &c. 
Wolves still commit such enormous depredations 
on the property of the most civilized nations of con- 
tinental Europe, and even destroy so many human 
lives, that it is deeply to be regretted there are 
states with immense standing armies, including 
whole corps of riflemen, who have never thought of 
