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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. XXIY. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
SOUTH AFRICAN LEGEND : THE MANE-HAIR JACKAL. 
What the pilot-fish is to the shark such is the jackal 
to the lion. In the great waters you rarely see the one 
without being attended by two of the pilots, darting 
about to warn off danger or to lead to prey. So also 
the jackal is invariably found in company with the 
monarch of the plains. This animal magnetism arises 
no doubt from mutual obligations, and the smaller 
creatures receive the crumbs which fall from the great 
one’s table in return for their watchfulness and cunning. 
But my story, or native legend, is of a more spiritual 
species of the jackal, as named at the head of this 
article. 
This jackal has very long hair, and a mane which 
extends from the neck all down the back, and it lias 
brown stripes extending across the body. 
The natives believe that the departed spirits of 
their relations and friends enter after death into this 
animal, and that it will always appear to warn them 
of danger or of some coming evil. Almost every Hot- 
