It might indeed have been carried away by some jackal, but the Mzimu might assume the shape of a jackal.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
So little Brahminists are they that they eat of the flesh of the jackal and the cow, and indulge freely in fermented drinks.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
I'm to be your jackal.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson