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in its smaller, and rather sharp pointed at top : from the 

 narrowness of the base, its great length and weight, the 

 horn must evidently stand moveable on the nasal bones, 

 until excitement renders the muscular action more rigid, 

 and the coriaceous sole which sustains it more firm, — cir- 

 cumstances which may explain the repeated assertion of 

 natives, that the horn, or rather the agglutinated hair 

 which forms that instrument, is flexible.* 



Much more recently, accounts have reached Europe of 

 the same nature, confirmatory of the former, inasmuch as 

 much of the value of such evidence consists in its cumu- 

 lative character ; but still only hearsay report. M. Antoine 

 d'Abbadie, writing to the Athenceum from Cairo, gives the 

 following account of an animal new to European science, 

 which account he had received from Baron Von Miiller, 

 who had recently returned to that city from Kordofan: — 

 "At Melpes, in Kordofan," said the Baron, "where I 

 stopped some time to make my collections, I met, on the 

 17th of April 1848, a man who was in the habit of selling 

 to me specimens of animals. One day he asked me if I 

 wished also for an A'nasa, which he described thus : — It 

 is the size of a small donkey, has a thick body and thin 

 bones, coarse hair, and tail like a boar. It has a lono" 

 horn on its forehead, and lets it hang when alone, but 

 erects it immediately on seeing an enemy. It is a formid- 

 able weapon, but I do not know its exact length. The 

 A nasa is found not far from here, (Melpes,) towards the 

 S.S.W. I have seen it often in the wild grounds, where the 



* Cyclop. Bill. Lit., Art. Reem. 

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