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JACKAL. 
These, like all other savage animals, when the? have 
once tasted of human flesh, can never after re- 
frain from pursuing mankind. They watch the 
burying grounds, follow armies, and keep in 
the rear of caravans. They may be considered 
as the vulture of the quadruped kind ; every 
thing that once had animal life, seems equally 
agreeable to them ; the most putrid substances 
are greedily devoured ; dried leather, and any 
thing that has been rubbed with grease, how 
insipid soever in itself, is sufficient to make the 
whole go down. 
They hide themselves in holes by day, and 
seldom appear abroad till night fall, when the 
Jackal that has first hit upon the scent of some 
large beast, gives notice to the rest by a howl* 
which it repeats as it runs ; while all the rest 
that are within hearing, pack in to its assistance. 
The gazelle, or whatever other beast it may be, 
finding itself pursued, makes off towards the 
houses and the towns ; hoping, by that means, to 
deter its pursuers from following ; but hunger 
gives the jackal the same degree of boldness that 
fear gives the gazelle, and it pursues even to the 
verge of the city, and often along the streets. 
The gazelle, however, by this means, most fre- 
quently escapes ; for the inhabitants sallying out, 
often disturb the jackal in the chase ; and as it 
hunts by the scent, when once driven off, it never 
recovers it again. In this manner we see how 
experience prompts the gazelle, which is natu- 
rally a very timid animal, and particularly fear- 
ful of man, to take refuge near him, consider- 
ing him as the least dangerous enemy, and often 
escaping by his assistance. 
But man is not the only intruder upon the 
jackal's industry and pursqits. The lion, the 
tiger, and the panther, whose appetites are supe- 
