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WOLF. 
These animals inhabit Europe, Asia, and Ame- 
rica, but are not known in Africa. To the north- 
ward they stretch as far as Kamtschatka, and even 
as high as the arctic circle. Pennant tells us 
that in the more uninhabited parts of the country 
they go in great droves, and with a hideous noise 
hunt the deer like a pack of hounds ; they will 
sometimes venture to attack a straggling buffalo : 
their supplies frequently fail, and they become so 
poor and hungry as to go into a swamp and fill 
themselves with mud, which, we are assured, they 
will disgorge as soon as they can get any food. 
<e Wolves are now so rare,” says Mr. Pennant, £i in 
the populated parts of America, that the inhabitants 
leave their sheep the whole night unguarded : yet 
the governments of Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, 
did some years ago allow a reward of twenty shil- 
lings,. and the last even thirty shillings, for the 
killing of every wolf. Tradition informed them 
what a scourge those animals had been to the colo- 
nies ; so they wisely determined to prevent the like 
evil. In their infant state, wolves came down in 
multitudes from the mountains, often attracted by 
the smell of the corpses of hundreds of Indians who 
died of the small-pox, brought among them by the 
Europeans : but the animals did not confine their 
insults to the dead, but even devoured in their huts 
the sick and dying savages.” 
It seems that wolves abounded in England during 
the time that the Saxons governed the kingdom, 
since we find king Edgar attempting to extirpate 
