PRODUCTS. 245 for if it can surprise sheep or gazelles, it prefers them, but hunger oftentimes forces it to dig up a corpse, and feed off it. Its forepaws are certainly adapted by nature for digging in the earth, but there are sufficient instances of dogs having scratched out the bodies of the dead and eaten them. In Hungary, Poland, and Russia, examples of wolves attacking men are very numerous ; in Africa, the instances of the hysena having done the same are very scarce. Ten hyainas may, in fact, be sooner tamed than one jackal. Thus, in the court of a house at Lobeid, I saw a hyaena running about quite domesticated : the children of the proprietor teased it, took the meat thro\\l to it for food out of its jaws, and put their hands even into its throat, without receiving the least injury. When we took our meals in the open air, to enjoy the breeze, as was our general custom during the hot season, this animal approached the table without fear, snapped up the pieces that were thrown to it like a dog, and did not evince the slightest sjTnptom of timidity. A full grown hyaena, and her two cubs, were, on another occasion, brought to me for sale : the latter were carried in arms, as you might carry a lamb, and were not even muzzled. The old one, it is true, had a rope round its snout, but it had been led a distance of twelve miles by one single man, without having offered the slightest resistance. The Africans do not even reckon the hyaena among the wild beasts of their country, for they are not afraid of it. The rhinoce-