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THE HY^NA. 
mand over his affections ; but his rage 
very great occasionally when strangers ap' 
proached him. Bishop Heber saw an hyffiD*' 
in India belonging to a gentleman who 
kept him for several years, and whom 
followed about like a dog, fawning on persoO’ 
with whom he was acquainted, and the goo^ 
bishop mentions this as an instance “ho" 
much the poor hyasna is wronged when he >■ 
described as untameable.” The author 
‘ The Menageries,’ adduces the further 
ample of an individual kept some years ago 
Exeter Change, which was so tame as to 
allowed to walk about the exhibition-rooHi' 
and was afterwards sold to a person who tool' 
him out into the fields merely confined by 
string. Being purchased by a travelling sho"" 
man, who kept him constantly in a cage, hi^ 
ferocity from that time became quite alarming' 
he would not suffer any stranger to approach 
him, and gradually pined away till he died. | 
