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AND LOWER EGYPT. I4I
given to the jackal in Egypt hdeib: the fellahs, or
the peasantry of the country, likewise call them,
after some popular legend no doubt, abou Solimant
Soliman's father.
These ferocious animals are not afraid of ad-
vancing close up to Alexandria ; they traverse its
enclosure during the night; they frequently spring
over it by the breaches made in the wall; they en-
ter into the city itself in quest of their prey, and fill
it with their cries : a species of association worthy
of the men by whom it was inhabited.
But an animal more gentle, and at the same time
more extraordinary, which occupies subterraneous
apartments in the vicinity of Alexandria, is the
gerboise or jerbo.
given to the jackal in Egypt hdeib: the fellahs, or
the peasantry of the country, likewise call them,
after some popular legend no doubt, abou Solimant
Soliman's father.
These ferocious animals are not afraid of ad-
vancing close up to Alexandria ; they traverse its
enclosure during the night; they frequently spring
over it by the breaches made in the wall; they en-
ter into the city itself in quest of their prey, and fill
it with their cries : a species of association worthy
of the men by whom it was inhabited.
But an animal more gentle, and at the same time
more extraordinary, which occupies subterraneous
apartments in the vicinity of Alexandria, is the
gerboise or jerbo.