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to feize him, he fought with great fury with the other. There 
are many thoufands of them in the inhabited diftri£t. They 
divide the field with the hyena : what carrion the latter leaves 
at night, the former come in crowds to feed on in the day. 
Near the extremity of each wing is a horny fubftance, not un- 
like the fpur of an old cock. It is ftrong and fharp ; and a 
formidable inflrument of attack. Some fluid exfudes from 
this bird that fmells likes mufk, but from what part of him I am 
uncertain. 
No. 2. This beautiful bird is found in great numbers in 
Fur, of which the common fowl, though it now abounds, is not 
a native. The voice of the Guinea fowl, when apparently 
elated, is very peculiar. No external difference, even in this 
their native climate, is to be obferved between the male and 
female of this bird. They are carried as a profitable commo- 
dity to Kahira, where however, in a domeftic ftate, it is faid 
they feldom or never breed. 
5. Thefe birds, in the beginning of fummer, fill the trees 
in the vicinity of the town I lived in. They are caught un- 
fledged, and brought up in the houfes, till they become quite 
domeftic ; are then carried to Egypt, and taught a kind of 
fpeech, which being acquired, they are fold at a high price. 
"'Of fifh I faw none but what were too much difguifed by 
drying to be recognifed. 
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