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aphrodisiac virtues of the flesh of the animal. I know that the 

 natives of Orissa believe iu them. 



While I was in Rangoon I had a manis iu captivity for several 

 weeks : it had been caught close to my house in a common wire 

 cage rat-trap, into which it certainly must have had considerable 

 difficulty in forcing its long body and tail, but which it probably 

 entered to eat the ants or other insects which might have been 

 attracted by the bait. 



It appeared to sleep all day, rolled up with the head between the 

 forelegs, and the long broad tail folded over the ball it thus made 

 so firmly as to require a considerable effort on the part of any one 

 who wished to uncoil it, a liberty which it never resented further 

 than by uttering a faint hiss : when touched while moving about 

 at night, at which time, like Mr. Elliot's specimen, it was very 

 restless, it always assumed the position I have just described, which 

 is doubtless one of defence and one which I do not think that any 

 of the smaller beasts of prey, jackals, or chaus cats for example, 

 would be able to force. 



Although I had it most carefully watched for this purpose, 

 neither any of my servants, nor I, ever saw this creature eat any- 

 thing ; it would however drink freely at almost any hour, in the 

 manner described by Mr. Elliot, lapping the water that was 

 offered to it by rapidly darting out its long extensile tongue. I 

 have no doubt however, it fed at night on white-ants, quantities of 

 which, with their earth and cells, I caused each evening to be 

 placed near it, or on small red ants which I tempted near its water- 

 dish with sugar, very probably also on the cockroaches which came 

 to the same bait. 



It was a most troublesome animal to keep ; for crippled, awk- 

 ward and slow as the manis is, in walking with its back arched and, 

 as Jerdon says, the forefeet with their anterior surface bent over 

 and brought into contact with the ground, it can burrow with great 

 rapidity by digging the ground out with the powerful foretoes and 

 by shutting up the burrow thus made behind it with the hind feet. 



I never could persuade my servants who were in great dread of 

 it, notwithstanding that they allowed it was toothless, that the 

 animal was not venomous. 



