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known it to attack the ounce and the panther. 
There is something in its aspect that indicates a 
peculiar gloominess and malignity of disposition ; 
and its manners correspond with its appearance. 
Instances have occurred of this creature being 
tamed. Mr. Pennant says., that he saw a hyaena 
as tame as a dog ; and the Comte de Buffbn, that 
there was one shewn at Paris that had been tamed 
very early, and was apparently divested of all its 
natural ferocity. In Barbary., Mr. Bruce assures 
us that he lias seen the Moors, in the day-time, 
take this animal by the ears, and haul him along, 
without his offering any other resistance than 
that of drawing back. And the hunters will 
take a torch in their hand, go into his cave, and, 
pretending to fascinate him by a senseless jargon 
of words, throw a blanket over him and drag 
him out. 
Mr. Bruce locked up a goat, a kid, and a lamb, 
all day with a Barbary bysena, when it was fasting, 
and found them in the evening alive and unhurt ; 
hut on his repeating an experiment of this kind 
one night, it ate up a young ass, a goat, and a fox, 
all before morning, so as to leave nothing but 
some fragments of the ass’s hones. In Barbary, 
therefore, the hyaenas seem to lose their courage, 
and fly from man by day ; but in Abyssinia, they 
often prowl about in the open day, and attack, 
with savage fury, every animal they meet with.— 
These creatures were” says Mr. Bruce cc a gene- 
ral scourge to Abyssinia, in every situation, both 
in the city and in the field ; and, I think, surpassed 
the sheep in number. Gondar was full of them, 
from evening till the dawn of day ; seeking ;the 
different pieces of slaughtered carcases which this 
cruel and unclean people expose in the streets 
without burial, and who firmly believe that these 
animals are Falasha, from the neighbouring mo m\* 
