APPENDIX, II9 



I had fallen unexpectedly upon him among the tents, or in 

 defence of my fervants or beads. Abroad and at a diflance 

 the gun prevented his nearer approach ; but in the night, 

 evening, or morning, we were conftantly in clofe engage- 

 ment with him. j 



This frequent victory over man, and his daily feeding 

 upon him without refinance, is that from which he furely 

 draws his courage. Whether to this food it is that he owes 

 his fuperior fize, I will not pronounce. For my own part, I 

 confider him as a variety of the fame rather than another 

 fpecies. At the fame time I muft fay, his form gave me di- 

 ftinctly the idea of a dog, without one feature or likenefs 

 of the hog, as was the cafe with the Syrian hyama living 

 on Mount Libanus, which is that of M. de Buffon, as plain- 

 ly appears by his drawing. 



I have oftentimes hinted in the courfe of my Travels at 

 the liking he has for mules and afles ; but there is another 

 pailion for which he is Hill more remarkable, that is, his 

 liking to dog's nefh, or, as it is commonly exprefTed, his a- 

 verfion to dogs. No dog, however fierce, will touch him in 

 the field. My greyhounds, accuftomed to faften upon the 

 wild boar, would not venture to engage with him. On the 

 contrary, there was not a journey I made that he did not 

 kill feveral of my greyhounds, and once or twice robbed 

 me of my whole flock : he would feek and feize them in the 

 fervants tents where they were tied, and endeavour to car- 

 ry them away before the very people that were guarding 



them. 



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