THE JACKAL. 
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the sleeping traveller, they will carry off wh^i*' 
ever they can find. For want of living pr®^ 
they will devour the most putrid carcas^^' 
and even disinter the dead, when the gra^'^ 
is not made of sufficient depth. When th^J 
cannot obtain animal food, they subsist 
fruits and nuts, burrowing in the earth, whef^ 
they lie all day, and sallying forth at nig^' 
in quest of prey. They are gregarious, 
sembling in packs of forty, fifty, and even t''’*” 
hundred ; hunting by the nose, for they ha^ 
a very quick scent, like hounds in full ctj’ 
from evening till morning filling the air 
the most horrid bowlings. When they coiJ’' 
mence their chase, the lion, panther, aP*^ 
other large beasts of prey, whose ears at®' 
dull, rouse themselves to action, and followtl’® 
jackals in silence, till they have hunted do"''' 
their prey, when they come up and devo"^ 
the fruits of their labour. Hence the jacka'' 
from an erroneous idea that he is in coof^ 
