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wild dogs and hysenas had, however, found her 
out before we did, and had mangled and mu- 
tilated her body, though her head and horns 
were left, the trophy of the huntsmen. These 
u vilde-hondes" as they are called by the Dutch, 
are most destructive to the game in the bush 
country, and hunt them in regular packs for 
miles together : they are the hycena crocuta, one 
of which was lately brought to England. 
Our day among the buffalos ended with an 
enjoyable night supper, and bivouac in the 
bush — our huntsman-like appetites doing jus- 
tice to the former, in a manner that would have 
astonished an English Mmrod. As we, at 
length, rode, by moonlight, towards our home, 
we could hear the bellowing of the wounded 
beast echoing through the valley. JSTor were 
we sorry, after our day's work of fifteen hours, 
in which we had walked over thirty miles of 
country, to reach our tents, and rest our weary 
limbs in our blankets, and sleep. 
Whilst passing through the bush, in this 
day's hunt, we found, here and there, the traces 
of the haunts of a small and rare animal, which 
we had previously seen in the upper parts of 
Kaffirland, and as we can find no account given 
elsewhere of this variety, we claim its dis- 
covery. It is a small " Viverra^ but instead 
of being as they all are, " tetradactyli" this 
