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gather in flocks, lured by the fmell of their food ; and of 

 thefe it would feem there are many in Shoa, for the capital 

 of that province, called Tegulat, means the City of the 

 Hysena. 



If the defcription given by M. de Buffon is an elegant 

 and good one, the draught of the animal is no lefs fo. It 

 is exactly the fame creature I have feen on Mount Libanus 

 and at Aleppo, which makes me have the lefs doubt that 

 there are two fpecies of this animal, the one partaking more 

 of the dog, which is the animal I am now describing, the 

 other more of the nature of the hog, which is the hysena of 

 M. de Buffon. Of this the reader will be eafily fatisfied, by 

 comparing the two figures and the meafures of them. The 

 fame diftinetion there is in the badger. 



The animal from which this was drawn was flain at Te- 

 awa, and was the largefl I had ever feen, being five feet 

 nine inches in length, meafuring from his nofe to his a- 

 nus ; whereas the hysena exhibited by M. de Buffon was rot 

 half that, it being only three feet two inches nine lines in 

 length. Notwithftanding the great fuperiority in fize by 

 which the hysena of Atbara exceeded that of M. de Buffon, 

 I didnot think him remarkable forhisfatnefs,orthatheowed 

 any of his fize to his being at that time in more than ordi- 

 nary keeping; on the contrary, I thought the moflof thofe 

 I had before feen were in a better habit of body. As near 

 as I could guefs, he might weigh about 8 flone, horfeman's 

 weight, that is, 14 pound to the flone, or 112 pound. 



The length of his tail, from the longer! hair in it to its 

 infenion above the anus, was one foot nine inches. Irwas 



compofcd. 



