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bred. It appears, in its native woods, to be im- 
pelled by two opposite passions ; a hatred for the 
males of the human species, and a desire for 
women. Were we assured of these strange op- 
positions in its disposition from one testimony 
alone, the account might appear doubtful * but, 
as it comes from a variety of the most credible 
witnesses, we cannot refuse our assent. From 
them, therefore, we learn, that these animals will 
often assail women in a body, and force them 
into the wood, where they keep them against 
their will, and kill them when refractory. 
At the cape of Good Hope they are less for- 
midable, but, to the best of their power, equally 
mischievous. They are there under a sort of 
natural discipline, and go about whatever they 
undertake with surprising skill and regularity. 
When they set about robbing an orchard or a 
a vineyard, for they are extremely fond of grapes, 
apples, and ripe fruit, they do not go singly td 
work, but in large companies, and with precon- 
certed deliberation. On these occasions, a part 
of them enter the inclosure, while one is set to 
watch. The rest stand without the fence, and 
form a line reaching all the way from their fellows 
within, to their rendezvous without, Which is 
generally in some craggy mountain. Every thing 
thus disposed, the plunderers within the orchard 
throw the fruit to those that are without as fast 
as they can gather it ; or, if the wall or hedge be 
high, to those that sit on the top ; and these 
hand the plunder to those next them on the other 
side. Thus the fruit is pitched from one to 
another all along the line, till it is safely de- 
posited at their head quarters. They catch it 
as readily as the most skilful tennis-player can a 
ball ; and while the business is going forward, 
which they conduct with great expedition, a 
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