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the mod numerous is the Deep, or, as he is called, the Jackal;- 

 this is prccifely the fame in all refpe&s as the Deep of iiar- 

 bary and Syria, who are heard hunting in great numbers, 

 and howling in the evening and morning. The true Deep, 

 as far as appears to me, is not yet known, at leait I never yet 

 faw in any author a figure that refembled him. The wild 

 boar, fmaller and fmoother in the hair than that of Barbary 

 or Europe, but differing in nothing elfe, is met frequently in< 

 fwamps or banks of rivers covered with wood. As he is- 

 accounted unclean in Abyfiinia, both by Chriftians and Ma- 

 hometans, confequently not perfecuted by the hunter, both 

 he and the fox fhould have multiplied ; but it is probable 

 they, and many other beafls, when young, are deflroyed by; 

 the voracious hysena.. 



The elephant, rhinoceros, giraffa, or camelopardalis, 

 are inhabitants of the low hot country; nor is the lion r 

 or leopard, faadh, which is the panther, feen in the high and 

 cultivated country. There are no tigers in Abyfiinia, nor, as 

 far as I know, in Africa; it is an Afiatic animal; for 

 what reafon fome travellers, or naturalifts, have called him 

 the tiger-wolf, or miftaken him altogether for the tiger, is 

 what I cannot difcover. Innumerable flocks of apes, and 

 baboons of different kinds, deftroy the fields of millet every 

 where ; thefe, and an immenfe number of common rats, 

 make great deftruction in the country and harveft. I never 

 faw a rabbit in Abyfiinia, but there is plenty of hares ; this, 

 too, is an animal which they reckon unclean ; and not being 

 hunted for food, it fhould feem they ought to have in- 

 creafed to greater numbers. Itis probable, however, that the 

 great quantity of eagles, vultures, and beafls of prey, has 



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