596 Great and Small Game of Africa 



over it yourself, for the spotted hyamas are certain to kill and devour it. 

 Sitting over a tethered bullock, I have seen half a dozen hyaenas collect 

 around it. One will slowly walk up and bite at the flank. I used to pelt the 

 hyaenas with stones. They would slink off for a short time, but returned 

 again and again. If you are sitting over a dead animal and a lion comes, the 

 hyamas retire. One moonlight night I had a very good view of a lion chasing 

 a hyama off the kill. The lion had come up to within a short distance of 

 the carcase and lain down in a bush ; three hyasnas came on to the kill, 

 when the lion rushed out and pursued them for some distance. Another 

 night I had shot a lioness. Two hyamas came up, and before I knew 

 what they were about, seized the dead lioness and dragged it away 20 

 yards. Hyamas often entered my zereba when they could get through the 

 hedge, and one entered my tent and carried off a leather water-bottle that 

 was standing at my bed-head. They are said to carry off children from 

 the karias, as the Somali encampments are called, and they also seize hold 

 of sleeping men and women, almost always by the face, tearing a large 

 piece away. A peculiar circumstance about the spotted hyaena is that the 

 external organs of the male and female are alike, so that it is impossible to 

 tell the sex by external examination. Burton, in First Footprints in Eastern 

 Africa, says that " the Somal declare the waraba to be a hermaphrodite, 

 so the ancients supposed the hyaena to be of both sexes." 



J. D. Inveraritv. 



Brown Hy^na {Hyana brunned) 



Strand Wolf (Shore Wolf) of the Boers 



The strand wolf, as it is commonly known in South Africa, was 

 formerly to be found ranging down to the very shores of Table Bay, where, 

 as in other parts of the littoral, it was in the habit of devouring the 

 remains of dead whales, fish, or any other carrion of the sea-coast. It 



