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wolfs walking round, and leaping up, in endeavouring to 

 reach the offal. He had not run above eight rods from the 

 poisoning place before he died. I was afterwards more suc- 

 cessful : hearing that Captain Sleeper had poisoned one, I 

 called to see it, and made a careful examination of it ; that 

 is, of the stuffed skin. It was a black wolf: it had not 

 been opened at the belly, but the carcass had been drawn 

 out at the mouth, which of course had to be enlarged, so that 

 I could form little idea of the shape of the head, or size of 

 the mouth. The length of the animal was four feet from 

 the nose to the insertion of the tail ; the tail one foot eight 

 inches ; from the nose to the eye, four and a half inches ; 

 from the nose to the ear, ten inches ; distance between the 

 ears, three and a half inches ; (the ears had been cut off for 

 the bounty, so that I could not ascertain their length;) the 

 height at fore shoulder, two feet three inches : length of fore 

 legs, one foot four inches ; girth of body, about two feet seven 

 inches. The general colour of the body was brownish black, 

 somewhat mottled with darker ; the belly was much lighter, 

 but a broad stripe of black, undefined at the edges, ran from 

 the breast down the middle of the belly : the back was 

 blackish, very slightly mottled with white, caused by the 

 intermixture of different hairs ; the body was covered with a 

 soft thick down, light grey at the root and brownish grey at 

 the end ; besides this fur there was likewise a longer hair, 

 which gave the colour of the animal ; this hair on the back 

 was white at the root, then black, then pure white, then 

 black at the tip ; this gave a speckled appearance to the 

 back. The tail was large and bushy ; the hair long, loose, 

 and nearly black : the throat and breast were nearly black ; 

 the feet and legs black ; the hair on the front of the legs 

 close, shining, and bristly : the head was black, the face 

 covered with short close hair ; the nose pointed, small, and 

 black : the ears were said to be short, pointed, and upright. 

 It was a female, and was with young at the time. 



