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that “ they feed on small animals and carrion, and often come in for 
the prey left by tigers and leopards after their appetites have been 
satiated: they are great enemies of dogs, and kill numbers of them. 
They make no earths of their own, but lie under rocks, or resort to 
the earths of wolves, as foxes do to those of badgers; and it is not 
uncommon to find wolves and hyaenas in the same bed of earths.” 
Their habit of digging human bodies from the grave, and dragging 
them to their den, and of accumulating around it the bones of all 
kinds of animals, is thus described by Busbequius, where he is 
speaking of the Turkish mode of burial in Anatolia, and their custom 
of laying large stones upon their graves to protect them from the 
hyaenas. “ Hyaena regionibus iis satis frequens; sepulchra suffodit, 
extrahitque cadavera, portatque ad suam speluncam; juxta quam 
videre est ingentem cumulum ossium humanorum £ veterinariorunT # 
et reliquorum omne genus animalium.” (Busbeq. Epist. 1 Leg. Turc.f) 
Brown, also, in his Travels to Darfur, describes the hyaenas’ manner 
of taking off their prey in the following words:— ££ they come in 
herds of six, eight, and often more, into the villages at night, and 
carry off” with them whatever they are able to master; they will kill 
dogs and asses even within the enclosure of houses, and fail not to 
assemble wherever a dead camel or other animal is thrown, which, 
acting in concert, they sometimes drag to a prodigious distance.” 
* Veterinam bestiam jumentum Cato appellavit a vehendo: (quasi veheterinus vel 
veterinus.) Pomp. Fest. 
f This evidence is the more valuable, from the accuracy and delight with which it 
appears, from his own testimony, that Busbequius used to watch the habits of wild 
animals, which he kept for this purpose in his menagerie at Constantinople, where he 
resided many years as ambassador from the Emperor of Germany. 
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