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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



do. The animals showed no dread of man on the first approach, 

 but looked lazily at the observers, perhaps uneasily shifting their 

 position, and then dozing off into a restless sleep. But, as the 



men drew nearer, they would rouse themselves, bark, " and un- 

 easily hitch themselves along a few paces." At first they offered 

 little resistance, but on the second day showed fight when attacked 



