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perfon, and dragged himfelf along at my fide 
in a moft languid condition. My cock feemed 
only aftonifhed at the convulfive agitation of 
my camp, while a common hawk would have 
thrown him into the greatefl confternation. 
He dreaded the fmell of a weafel more than 
all the lions of Africa united. Thus each 
being has fome enemy which it defies, and 
the latter in its turn bends before a ftronger. 
Man, however, braves all, except thofe of his 
own fpecles. 
We indeed fee animals of the fame kind 
fight with one another ; but they are impelled 
to this, merely for a moment, by love, the 
only paffion that difunites them, after which 
every thing again returns to its former order. 
A more continued and durable hatred may 
however be obferved among domeftic animals. 
Is this the effedl of education or of example ? 
But I return to the different figns by which 
danger is announced ; and it may be readily 
believed that no one has had a better oppor-^ 
tunity of obferving them in the minuteft man- 
ner. All the books and compilations, and all 
the fpeculative eloquence in the world, can 
never overturn obfervations fo often repeated 
pa the grand theatre of the African defarts. 
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