APPENDIX. 4Q1 



THE HY^NA *. 



These ammals are to be'seen in most of the exhibi- 

 tions of wild beasts in this country. They are ex- 

 cessively ravenous and ferocious ; and their jaws 

 are much stronger than those of the generality of their 

 tribe. The keepers represent the old animals as 

 invariably malignant and .indocile. The keeper 

 of the Tower, however, informed n:ie that seven or 

 eight years ago, there was one at Exeter 'Change, 

 about six months old, so very tame that he was oc- 

 casionally suffered to come out of his den, and 

 run about the exhibition room f. The animal would 

 allow even strangers to approach and pat him with 

 their hands, exhibiting no symptoms whatever of 

 displeasure: he seemed fond of playing with any of 

 the Dogs that happened to come into the room. 

 Still, however, there was a considerable degree of 

 suUenness and ill-nature in his disposition, which, 

 with his age, appeared every day to increase. 

 After being at Exeter 'Change about two months, 

 lie was sold to a Mr. Tennant of Pentonville, a 

 dealer in animals. This person, with only a sin- 

 gle string fixed to the animal's collar, suffered 

 him twice or thrice to go out with him into 

 the fields. He was soon afterwards sold to the 

 owner of a caravan, for the purpose of exhibition. 

 From the unusual confinement, his disposition al- 



* Sec vol. i. p. '235. 

 t In this act he appeared always to luu on one side, as tijougb he 

 had been weak in the loias. 



