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fervant cleft his fkull with a battle- ax. In a word, the hyaena' 

 was the plague of our lives, the terror of our night-walks, 

 the deftruction of our mules and afTes, which above all o- 

 thers are his favourite food. Many inftances of this the 

 reader will meet with, throughout, my Travels. 



The hyaena is known by two names in the eaft, Deeb 

 and Dubbah. His proper name is Dubbah, and this is the 

 name he goes by among the belt Arabian naturalifls. In 

 Abyilinia, Nubia, and part of Arabia, he is, both in writing 

 and converfation, called Deeb, or. Deep, either ending with 

 a b or p ; and here the confufion begins, for though Dub- 

 bah is properly a hyaena, Dabbu is a fpecies of monkey;, 

 and though Deeb is likewife a hyaena, the fame word lig- 

 nifies a jackal ; and a jackal being by naturalifls called a 

 wolf,. Deeb is underftood to be a wolf alfo. In Algiers this 

 difference is preferved ftriclly ; Dubbah is the hyaena; Deeb 

 is the jackal, which run in flocks in the night, crying like 

 hounds. Dubb is a bear, fo here is another confufion, and 

 the bear is taken for the hyaena,, beoaufe Dubb, or Dubbah, 

 feems to be the fame word. So Poncer, on the frontiers of 

 Sennaar, complains, that one of his mules was bit in the 

 thigh by a bear, though it is well known there never was 

 any animal of the bear- kind in that, or, I believe, in any 

 other part of Africa. And I ftrongly apprehend, that the 

 leopards and tigers, which Alvarez and Don Roderigo tie 

 Lima mention molefted them fo much in their journey to 

 Shoa, were nothing elfe but hyaenas.. For tigers there are 

 certainly none in Abyilinia; it is an Afiatic animal. Though 

 there are leopards, yet they are but few in number, and are 

 not gregarious, neither, indeed,. are the hyaenas, only as they 



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