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word of command, drive them up to the corner of a pond,, 

 seize the largest, and bring it in its mouth to its master ; to 

 take an old otter alive not easy ; few dogs dare to encoun- 

 ter it ; marks of $s residence ; bites with great fierceness, 

 and never lets go its hold; brings forth its young under 

 hollow banks, upon beds of rushes, flags, or weeds; manner 

 of taking the young alive ; how fed when taken ; continues 

 long without food ; couples about midsummer in Europe, 

 and brings forth at nine weeks' end three or four at a time ; 

 some dogs trained up to discover its retreat ; otters met with 

 in most parts of the world ; in North America and Carolina 

 found white, inclining to yellow ; description of the Brasi- 

 lian oKer, iii. 244. 



Ovaria, two glandular bodies near the womb, resembling the 

 cluster of small eggs found in fowls, i. 359. 



Ouarine, species of monkey so called by M. Buffon, remarka- 

 ble for the loudness of their voice, and the use to which they 

 apply it, iii. 310. 



Oviparous animals distinguished from the viviparous, the two 

 classes for generation ; all other modes held imaginary and 

 erroneous, i. 364*. 



Ounce, or onza, remarkable for being easily tamed, and em- 

 ployed all over the East for the purposes of hunting, ii. 4<36. 

 Distinguished from the panther, the onza of Linnaeus, 4-31. 

 Does not pursue by the smell like the dog kind : manner of 

 hunting with it, 437. 



Ourang-outang, the wild man of the wood, an animal nearly 

 approaching the human race, is the foremost of the ape kind: 

 this name given to various animals walking upright, but of 

 different countries, proportions and powers: the troglodyte of 

 Bontius, the drill of Purchas, and the pigmy of Tyson, have 

 received this general name : its description in a comparative 

 view with man : gigantic races of it described by travellers 

 truly formidable : many are taller than man, active, strong, 

 intrepid, cunning, lascivious, and cruel : countries where 

 found : in Borneo the quality course him as we do the stag, 

 and this hunting is a favourite amusement of the king : runs 

 with great celerity : its description : Battel calls him pon- 

 go, assures us that in all he resembles man, but is larger to 

 a gigantic state : a native of the tropical climates : he lives 

 upon fruits, and is not carnivorous : goes in companies, and 

 this troop meeting one of the human species without suc- 

 cour, show him no mercy : they jointly attack the elephant, 

 beat him with clubs, and force him to leave that part of the 

 forest they claim as their own : is so strong, that ten men 

 are not a match for it : none of the kind taken but very 

 young : one of them dying, the rest cover the body with 

 leaves and branches : a negro boy taken by one of these. 



