DEATH OF THE ANT-BEAR 



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paring the skin, which, during my journey through 

 Erythrea, excited more interest than anything else I 

 carried. It was not really dry till after we had passed 

 Port Said, but eventually both it and the skeleton 

 reached home in perfect condition, being one of the very 

 few specimens that did so. 



A Dead Ant-Bear, or Aard Vark. 



