2o8 TRAVELS IN 
mountains of Savoy, traverfe our ftrects, dance, 
leap, falute people, and In a word obey the 
orders of their condudor with the moft timid 
fubmiffion to his avaricious caprice. 
In general, all animals with horns and clo- 
ven feet have a haggard eye, which gives 
them a terrible appearance : but, as in carni- 
vorous and fanguinary animals, this is not a 
fign of fury, on the contrary it indicates 
terror and fear. They have neither the deep 
cunning, nor the mifchlevous difpofition, of 
the lion, the tiger, or even the elephant. In- 
deed they have no occafion for them ; the 
vegetables upon which they feed do not 
caufe fo much heat in their bowels : they 
are exceedingly wild, but they are timid. In 
this apparent contraft I fee nothing contrary 
to nature, and I uifcover one of the moft 
ftrlking features of man. 
I fhall not here enter Into an examination 
of thofe complicated fliades, hitherto fo little 
known, which diftlngulfh favage animals from 
each other. It is always either a regard to 
their own fafety, or a defire of providing for 
their own fubfiftence, that leads them to fero- 
city ; but being, like us, fubjed: to paffions 
varloufly combined, they proceed to it by dif- 
I ferent 
