the HYjENA. 
they should bite me in the leg. They grunted 
in great numbers about me, although I 
surrounded with several armed men, w'h^ 
seldom passed the night without wounding 
slaughtering some of them. 
It would appear from facts related by Bruc^ 
that the hyana of Barbary is far less fiei'C® 
than that of the central regions of Africa. 
assures us that in Barbary he has seen th^ 
Moors in the day-time take this animal W 
the ears, and haul him along without his oflPef" 
ing any other resistance than drawing back' 
and the hunters will take a torch in thei^ 
hands, enter a cave, and, pretending to fasci' 
nate him by a senseless jargon, throw a blaH' 
ket over him and drag him out. By way 
experiment, the traveller himself once locked* 
up a goat, a kid, and a iamb all day with 
Barbary hyajna when fasting; and he foun'^ 
them in the evening alive and unhurt ; 
on a repetition of the experiment, he ate up ^ I 
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