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the borders of river?. I had no opportu- 
nity of feeing it ; but the places which it 
frequents make me conjediure that it is ich- 
thyophagoua, and feeds upon fiih. I was 
affured that it has no fpots, and that it is en- 
tirely of a tawny colour. 
With regard to the third, named ge^/ireepte- 
ivolfyiht ftriped wolf), it is probably the hy- 
X!na defcribed by Buffon. I muft however re- 
mark, that, not having feen it in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Cape, I doubt much whether 
it be the fame as the hyaena to which the 
planters give that name : perhaps they know 
it only by tradition. For myfelf, I can 
fay that I never faw but two kinds in all that 
part of Africa which I traverfed, viz. the fpotted 
wolf, and the hysena of the naturalifts. The 
latter I found no where except beyond the 
Country of the Greater Nimiqua?, towards the 
tropic. When I returned to the Cape and gave 
it out as the ftriped w^olf, every body believed 
me, and no one doubted the truth of what I ad- 
vanced. It may neverthelefsbe difterent in fome 
particular charaderiftic, and form a fourth fpe- 
cies diflind from the reft. At fome future time, 
perhaps, they will be all better known. 
Whilft 
