APPENDIX. 127 



The Arabs of the kingdom of Tripoli make very good 

 diverfion with the Jerboa, in training their grey-hcunds, 

 which they employ to hunt the gazel or antelope after in- 

 ftructing him to turn nimbly by hunting this animal. The 

 prince of Tunis, fon of Sidi Younis, and grandfon of Ali Bey,, 

 who had been ftrangled by the Algerines when that capital 

 was taken, being then in exile at Algiers, made me a 

 prefent of a fmall grey-hound, which often gave us excel- 

 lent fport. It may be perhaps imagined a chace between 

 thefe two creatures could not be long, yet I have often 

 feen, in a large inclofure, or court-yard, che greyhound 

 employ a quarter of an hour before he could mafter his 

 nimble adverfary ; the fmall fize of the creature aflifted him 

 much, and had not the greyhound been a practifed one, 

 and made ufe of his feet as well as his teeth, he might 

 have killed two antelopes in the time he could have killed; 

 one Jerboa.. , 



It is the character of the faphan given in fcripture, that 

 he is gregarious, that he lives in houfes made in the rock, 

 that he is diflinguifhed for his feeblenefs, which he fup- 

 plies by his wifdom : none of thefe characteriftics agree 

 with the Jerboa, and therefore though he chews the cud in 

 common with fome others, and was in great plenty in 

 Judea, fo as to be known by Solomon, yet he cannot be the 

 faphan of the fcripture. 



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