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HYiENA. 
The hyaena will follow cattle for several days, 
taking the advantage of the nights for seizing its 
prey: a gentleman who lately returned from his 
travels into the interior of Africa, showed us 
the skull of one which he shot after it had fol- 
lowed their party for some time, and destroyed 
several bullocks. “ One evening,” says Dr. Thun- 
berg, u we had turned our oxen out to graze in the 
plain, but not far from the farm. The evening 
was darker than usual ; the dogs made a terrible 
noise, and the whole herd of oxen thronged towards 
the house, without our being able, as the night was 
so dark, to go to their assistance with fire-arms. 
In the morning we found that the cattle had been 
pursued by a tiger-wolf, and that one of our oxen 
had been bit in the groin, and a portion of the 
skin six inches broad had been torn away, but that 
the intestines did not hang out, nor were they other- 
wise hurt.” 
Since the introduction of fire-arms, these ani- 
mals have been less daring ; for it appears that for- 
merly their undaunted ferocity led them to enter 
the very huts of the Hottentots, and sometimes 
carry off their children. Numbers of them are 
known frequently to attend in the night-time about 
the shambles at the Cape, for the sake of the bones 
and offal that are left there by the inhabitants ; and 
they prove themselves such active scavengers, that 
not a vestige of any thing which can possibly be 
devoured is to be found in the morning. It is 
singular that the dogs, who are their sworn enemies 
