ms- to look after them. While I ftaid at the warm bath, my laddle-horfe together with fome others, was frightened one night by the wolves, fo as to pull up by the roots tlie finall buihes to which they were tied, and took to their heels ; but by good luck, they were found again unhurt the following evening. They had perhaps difengaged themfelves entirely from their faftenings, or elfe taken heart, ©p having been obliged to ftop at the fteep declivity of a mountain, that enclofed a narrow dale, where they were found. It may be like wife, that the hyaena has courage only upon the open plains, in the fame manner as our ordinary wolves; which, for fear of being taken by fur- prize, are faid not to venture to follow any one that takes Refuge in the ikirts of a wood. The imminent danger I had been in of lofing my faddle-horfe, induced me afterwards to be as cautious as poffible againft fo difagrceable and vigilant an enemy as the wolf. I had alfo the good fortune, throughout the whole of my journey, toefcape paying any tax to. this animal’s voracity and cunning, excepting a trace belonging to the waggon, two yards long and two fingers thick, made of ftrong thongs of undreffed ox’s hide plaited together; for one night a wolf came within- fide o f the door of my lodgings (at Tiger-hoek) where it hung up, and gnawing it in pieces, ate it up. The Hottentots themfelves have confeifed to me, that; it was ftill within the memory o f man, that the tiger-wolf was bold enough to fteal upon them and moleft them in their huts, particularly by carrying off their children. This, however, is now no Idnger the cafe ; a ciccumftance, perhaps, proc e e d s from the inv<xlu£tion of, (he-arms into the eoun- > try? try, a circtimffâncd which, in thëfe latter times, has cafifed >rp this, as Well âs other wild beafts, to ftârid in grëàter àwe o f VaÎvO mart than it did formerly. I have heard the Following ftory o f the tigtr-Wolf mentioned, as being related in a certain treatife on the Cape, b f which I nbw èànneft exaéily réJ member the title. The tale is laughable enough, though perhaps not quite fò probable. “ At a féaft near the Gâpé onè night, a trumpeter who had got his fill was carried oüt of doors, in ordér that he ittight cool himfclf, and get fotìér again; The féèiit o f him feon dfetv thither a tiger-wolf, which threw him bn his back, and dragged him along with him as a corpfe, and coiifequentiy a fair prize, lip towards 'fable-m&untain. During this, however, our drüiiken iiiuEciah waked, enough in his fenfes to know the dangër of his fituation, and to found the alarm with his trumpet, which he carried fattened to his fide. Thé wild beaft, as may eafily be fuppofed, was not lefs frightened in his turn.” Any other befides a trumpeter would, in fuèh eircumftances, have undoubtedly been no better than wolf’s meat. In the mean while it is a certain truth, and well known to every body, that thefe Wolves are to be found almoft every dark night about the ihartibles at the Cape, where they devour the offals o f bones, ikin, &e. which are thrown out there in great quantities, and drag awày with them what they cannot eat. The inhabitants repay thefe good offices of the hyæna with a free and unlimited privilege o f accefs and egrefs. The dogs too hereabouts, perfe&ly aceuftomed to their company, are faid never to throw any impediment in their way ; fo that the beaft, Y 2 entertained
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