Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 - in five volumes (1790) (14771571311)

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Title: Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes

Year: 1790 (1790s)

Authors: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI

Subjects: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Natural history Explorers

Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ther beafls, when young, are deflroyed by;the voracious hysena.. 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

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