ABYSSINIAN HY^NA. 
will touch him in the field. My Greyhounds^ 
accustomed to fasten on the Wild Boar, would 
not venture to engage with him : on the con- 
trary, there was not a journey I made, that he 
did not kill several. He would seek, and seize 
them, even in the servants tents. In Eccle- 
siasticus xiii. 18. it is said, ** What agreement 
is there between the Hyaena and the Dog 
A sufficient proof, that the antipathy was so 
well known as to be proverbial. I must here 
observe that, if there is any precision in the 
description of Linnsus^ the animal does not 
answer to it, either in the Cauda Rcdta, or 
Annulata : for he never carries his tail eredl ;, 
but alvv^ays close behind him, like a Dog when 
afiaid, or unless when he is in full speed." 
Mr. Bruce denies that the Hyssn'a digs up 
graves and maintains, that it is not the Sa- 
phan of the Sacred Writings, as Greek com- 
mentators have imagined. BuiFon says, Mr. 
Bruce is the first who took notice, ih'dt the 
Hyasna always commences it's flight with a 
seeming lameness, vvhich continues for abcut 
a hundred paces. 
