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getables. The voice of the Jackal is described as 
peculiarly hideous^ consisting of a kind of mix- 
ture of howling and indistinct barking. These 
animals frequently go in great troops, to hunt 
their prey, and by their dreadful yellings alarm 
and put to flight deer, antelopes, and other timid 
quadrupeds ; while the Lion, instinctively attend- 
ing to the clamour, is said to follow till the Jack- 
als have hunted down the prey, and, having sa- 
tiated himself, leaves only the mangled remains 
to be devoured by the Jackals. 
It is for this reason that the Jackal is popularly 
termed the Lion s Provider. When pressed by 
hunger. Jackals have been frequently known to 
enter towns and devour indiscriminately whatever 
animal substance they can find. They commit 
ravages among the flocks, kill fowls, kc. and have 
been known to attack mankind. 
There is great reason for supposing this animal 
to be the real origin of the Dog, since almost all 
its manners and propensities are the same. When 
taken young, it is easily tamed ; attaches itself to 
mankind, distinguishes its master, comes on being 
called by its name, shews an attachment to Dogs, 
instead of flying from them, and has all the other 
particularities of character by which the Dog is 
distinguished : amongst others, the important ob- 
servation of Professor Guldenstedt, who has given 
an accurate description of the Jackal in the Pe- 
tersburgh Transactions, should by no means be 
omitted, viz. that the Jackal and Dog agree in 
the structure of the coecum or short intestine, and 
