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HY^NA. 
that he saw a Hyaena which had been rendered as 
tame as a dog ; the other by the Count de BufFon, 
who assures us, that in an exhibition of animals 
at Paris, m the year 1773, there was a Hysena 
which had been tamed very early, and Av^as appa- 
rently divested of all its natural malevolence of dis- 
position. A remarkable particularity in this ani- 
mal^ but which is sometimes observed in dogs, 
&c. is, that when it is first dislodged from cover^ 
or obliged to run, it always appears lame for a 
considerable space, and that sometimes to such a 
degree, according to Mr. Bruce, as to make the 
spectator suppose one of the hind legs to be brok- 
en; but after running some time, this affection 
goes off, and he runs swiftly away. The super- 
stitions of the ancients respecting this animal, its 
annual x^hange of sex, &c. &c. are too absurd to 
be even mentioned in the present period of illu- 
mination. 
The Hyasna about Mount Libanus, Syria, the 
north of Asia, and about Algiers, is known, ac- 
cording to Mr. Bruce, to live mostly upon large 
succulent bulbous roots, especially those of the 
Fritillaria, &c. and that author informs us that 
he has known large spaces of fields turned up to 
get at onions or roots of those plants ; and these 
were chosen with such care, that, after having 
been peeled, they were refused and left on the 
ground on account of a small rotten spot in them; 
Mr. Bruce, therefore, imagines that his primitive 
manner of feeding was rather on vegetables than 
on flesh y but in Abyssinia he seems long to have 
