ABYSSINIAN HYiENA. 
carcases, which this cruel and unclean people 
expose in the streets without burial, and who 
firmly believe that these animals are Falasha 
from the neighbouring mountains, transformed 
by magic, and come down to eat human flesh 
in the dark. 
" The Hysena is known by two names in 
the East; Deeb, and Dubbah, His present 
name is Dubbah ; and this is the name he goes 
by among the best Ara'bian naturalists. In 
x\byssinia, Nubia, and part of Arabia, he is, 
both in writing and conversation, called Dceb, 
or Deep ; either ending with a b, or p : and 
here the confusion begins ; for, though Dubba 
is properly a Hyaena, Dubbu is a species of 
Monkey ; and, though Deeb is likewise a Hy- 
aena, the same word signifies a Jackal ; and, 
a jackal being by naturalists called a Wolf, 
Deeb is understood to be a Wolf also. In 
Algiers, this difference is preserved stri6i;ly : 
Dubbah is the Hyct^na, Deeb is the Jackal, 
and Dubb is the Bear. So, here is another 
confusion ; and the Bear is L.iken for the Hy- 
zena, because Dubb, or Dubbah, seems to be 
the same word. 
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