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their looks, during the night, what kind of 
ferocious animals are in the neighbourhood. 
If it be a lion, the dog, without ftirring from 
the fpot, begins to howl in a moft melan- 
choly tone ; he feems very uneafy and ^reft- 
lefs ; he approaches his mafter, keeps clofe to 
him, and fawns upon him as if he meant to 
fay, Tou mujl defend me. Other domeftic ani- 
mals are under no lefs agitation ; all of them 
ftart up ; not one of them remains in a lying 
pofture ; and the oxen bellow in a plaintive 
manner, but MUth a low voice. Horfes beat 
the earth, and caper about in all diredions ; 
goats exprefs their fear alfo by peculiar figns ; 
and flieep, with their heads hung down, col- 
le<3: themfelves Into a body, and prefs as 
clofely agalnft one another as they can. They 
appear then as one mafs, and continue in that 
pofition without the leaft motion. Man alone, 
haughty and confident of his own fuperiority, 
fnatches up his arms, palpitates with impa- 
tience, and pants after his vidim. 
On fuch occafions the terror of Kees was 
ftill more apparent. As much frightened by 
the reports of our fufees which we fired oa 
the approach of the lion, the leaft movement 
would make him ftart ; he moaned like a fick 
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