THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. ey, 
rude a blow with the tent-pole upon his head, that it fell« 
ed him to the ground ; others, with pikes, put an end to his 
life. 
We were then dbliged toturn our cares towardsthe wound- 
ed. Yafine’s wound wasfoon feen to be a trifle; befides, he was 
aman not eafily alarmed on fuch occafions. But the poor afs 
was not fo eafily comforted. The ftump remained, the tail 
hanging by a piece of it, which we were obliged to cut off. 
The next operation was actual cautery; but, as we had 
made no bread for break faft, our fire had been early out. We, 
therefore, were obliged to tie the ftump round with whip- 
cord, till we could get fire enough to heat an iron. 
Wuart fufficiently marked the voracity of thefe beafts, the 
hyenas, was, that the bodies of their :dead companions, which 
we hauled a long way from us, and left there, were almoft en- 
tirely eaten by the furvivors the next morning; and I then 
abferved, for the firft time, that the hyena of this country 
was a different fpecies. from thofe I had feen in Europe, 
avhich had been brought‘from Afia or America. 
Y2 CH? 
