Hyenas

India [Salsette Island] circa 1849. Current status: Striped Hyena endangered in India.

Anna Harriette Leonowens, Life and Travel in India, Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, 1897, p. 54.

At another small village, named Viarè, we came upon what seemed a jungle, open in some parts and in others densely thick, abounding in hyenas, tigers, panthers, and the wild-boar; passing through this with anything but pleasurable feelings, we reached Toolsey….