. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . ther beafls, when young, are deflroyed by;the voracious The elephant, rhinoceros, giraffa, or camelopardalis,are inhabitants of the low hot country; nor is the lionror leopard, faadh, which is the panther, feen in the high andcultivated country. There are no tigers in Abyfiinia, nor, asfar as I know, in Africa; it is an Afiatic animal; forwhat reafon fome travellers, or naturalifts, have called himthe tiger-wolf, or miftaken him altogether for the tiger, iswhat I canno
. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . ther beafls, when young, are deflroyed by;the voracious The elephant, rhinoceros, giraffa, or camelopardalis,are inhabitants of the low hot country; nor is the lionror leopard, faadh, which is the panther, feen in the high andcultivated country. There are no tigers in Abyfiinia, nor, asfar as I know, in Africa; it is an Afiatic animal; forwhat reafon fome travellers, or naturalifts, have called himthe tiger-wolf, or miftaken him altogether for the tiger, iswhat I cannot difcover. Innumerable flocks of apes, andbaboons of different kinds, deftroy the fields of millet everywhere ; thefe, and an immenfe number of common rats,make great deftruction in the country and harveft. I neverfaw a rabbit in Abyfiinia, but there is plenty of hares ; this,too, is an animal which they reckon unclean ; and not beinghunted for food, it fhould feem they ought to have in-creafed to greater numbers. Itis probable, however, that thegreat quantity of eagles, vultures, and beafls of prey, has 2 kept. /// //VV7 /. / , ^///YfYf -> Zortd»tPui>$h dDee?/ *f/j8o by GEobitMon 8c (b MaAA APPENDIX. Bj kept them within reafonable bounds. The hippopotamusand crocodile abound in all the rivers, not only of Abyffinia,but as low down as Nubia and Egypt: there is no goodfigure nor defcription extant, as far as I know, of eitherof thefe animals; fome unforefeen accident always thwartedand prevented my fupplying this deficiency. There aremany of the afs kind in the low country towards the frontiersof Atbara, but no Zebras; thefe are the inhabitants of Faz-uclo and Narea, RHINOCEROS. NATURALISTS feem now in general to be agreed thatthere are two fpecies of this quadruped, the firft ha-ving two horns upon his nofe, the fecond one. It is alfo agenerally received opinion, that thefe different fpecies areconfined to diflant places of the old continent; that with onehorn is though
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