76 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
is by nature quite as ferocious in his temper as the 
striped inhabitant of the North, has been domiciliated in 
the houses of the peasantry, among whom he is preferred 
to the dog himself for attachment to his master, for 
general sagacity, and even, it is said, for his qualifica- 
tions for the chase. That the Striped Hyzna might be 
rendered equally useful is highly probable from the 
docility and attachment which he manifests towards his 
keepers, especially when allowed a certain degree of 
liberty, which he shows no disposition to abuse. If 
more closely restricted his savage nature sometimes 
returns upon him; and it is for this reason that those 
which are carried about the country from fair to fair, 
-pent up in close caravans, frequently become surly and 
even dangerous. The individual whose portrait we give 
is, on the contrary, remarkably tame; he is a native of 
the East Indies, and is confined in the same den with 
one of the American Bears, as we shall have occasion to 
notice more particularly when speaking of the latter 
animal. 
