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With respect to this last point Dr. Savage is 

 very explicit in another place: 



" Biting is their principal art of defence. I have seen 

 one man who had been thus severely wounded in the 

 feet. 



" The strong development of the canine teeth in the 

 adult would seem to indicate a carnivorous propensity; 

 but in no state save that of domestication do they mani- 

 fest it. At first they reject flesh, but easily acquire a 

 fondness for it. The canines are early developed, and evi- 

 dently designed to act the important part of weapons of 

 defence. When in contact with man almost the first 

 effort of the animal is — to bite. 



" They avoid the abodes of men, and build their habita- 

 tions in trees. Their construction is more that of nests 

 than huts, as they have been erroneously termed by some 

 naturalists. They generally build not far above the 

 ground. Branches or twigs are bent, or partly broken, 

 and crossed, and the whole supported by the body of a 

 limb or a crotch. Sometimes a nest will be found near 

 the end of a strong leafy branch twenty or thirty feet 

 from the ground. One I have lately seen that could not 

 be less than forty, feet, and more probably it was fifty. 

 But this is an unusual height. 



" Their dwelling-place is not permanent, but changed 

 in pursuit of food and solitude, according to the force of 

 circumstances. We more often see them in elevated 

 places; but this arises from the fact that the low grounds, 

 being more favourable for the natives' rice-farms, are the 

 oftener cleared, and hence are almost always wanting in 

 suitable trees for their nests. ... It is seldom that more 

 than one or two nests are seen upon the same tree, or in 

 the same neighbourhood: five have been found, but it 

 was an unusual circumstance." . . . 



" They are very filthy in their habits. ... It is a 



