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monuments of the victories of this favage animal, and of 

 man more favage and cruel than he. From the eafe with 

 which he overcomes thefe half-ftarved and unarmed peo- 

 ple, arifes the calm, fteady confidence in which he furpafTes 

 all the reft of his kind. 



In Barbary I have feen the Moors in the day-time take 

 this animal by the ears and pull him towards them, without 

 his attempting any other refiftance than that of his drawing 

 back: and the hunters, when his cave is large enough to 

 give them admittance, take a torch in their hand, and go 

 itraight to him ; when, pretending to fafcinate him by a 

 fenfelefs jargon of words which they repeat, they throw a 

 blanket over him, and haul him out. He feems to be ftupid 

 or fenfelefs in the clay, or at the appearance of flrong light,, 

 unlefs when purfued by the hunters,. 



I have locked up a goat, a kid, and a lamb with him all 

 day when he was farting, and found them in the evening 

 alive and unhurt. Repeating the experiment one night, he 

 ate up a young afs, a goat, and a fox, ail before morning, fo 

 as to leave nothing but fome fmall fragments of the afs's 

 bones.. 



In Barbary, then, he has no courage by day; he flics 

 from man, and hides himfelf from him : But in Abyflinia 

 or Atbara, accuftomed to man's item, he walks boldly in 

 the day* time like a horfe or mule, attacks man wherever he 

 finds him, whether armed or unarmed, always attaching 

 himfelf to the mule or afsin preference to the rider. I may 

 fafely fay, I fpeak within bounds, that I have fought him a- 

 bove fifty times hand to hand, with a lance or fpear, when 



1 had 



