THE HYiENA. 
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on a gate being left partly open, 
Would enter and carry off any unfortu- 
animal that they could find in the streets.” 
I’Uce assures us that, during his residence 
Abyssinia, the hyeenas were a plague in 
„ situation, both in the city and in the 
and that they surpassed even the sheep 
'dumber. “ Gondar was full of them,” says 
^ ’ “ from the time it became dark till the 
sla^*^ ‘^f day, seeking the different pieces of 
^^ghtered carcases which this cruel and un- 
^ people expose in the streets without 
and who firmly believe that these ani- 
% [that is, men transformed by 
^^§ic intQ beasts] from the neighbouring 
, '^ntains, come to eat human flesh in the 
th i Many a time at night, when 
king bad kept me late in the palace, and 
wiy duty to lie there, in going across 
dj. from the king’s house, not many hun- 
^ yards distant, I have been apprehensive lest 
