INTRODUCTION. 
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is the deer, or the goat ; those harmless creatuTes, 
that seem made to embellish nature. These are 
either pursued or surprised, and afford the most 
agreeable repast to their destroyers. The most 
usual method with even the fiercest animals, is to 
hide and crouch near some path frequented by 
their prey ; or some water where cattle come to 
drink ; and seize them at once with a bound. 
The lion and the tiger leap twenty feet at a spring ; 
and this, rather than their swiftness or strength, 
is what they have most to depend upon for a supply . 
There is scarcely one of the deer, or hare kind, 
that is not very easily capable of escaping them by 
its^swiftness ; so that whenever any of these fall a 
prey, it must be owing to their own inattention. 
But there is another class of the carnivorous 
kind, that hunt by the scent, and which it is much 
more difficult to escape. It is remarkable, that 
all animals of this kind pursue in a pack ; and 
encourage each other by their mutual cries. The 
jackall, the wolf, and the dog, are of this kind : 
they pursue with patience, rather than swiftness," 
their prey flies at first, and leaves them for miles 
behind ; but they keep on with a constant steady 
pace, and excite each other by a general spirit of 
industry and emulation, till at last, they share the 
common plunder. But it too often happens, that 
the larger beasts of prey, when they hear a cry of 
th is kind begun, pursue the pack, and when they 
have hunted down the animal, come in and mono- 
polize the spoil. ^ This has given rise to the report 
