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of Bacchus are delineated, all the human 

 figures have tails. In the Cuneiform 

 monument of the Assyrians now in the 

 British Museum, which represents Jehu, 

 king of Israel, paying tribute to Salma- 

 neser II., some of the human figures are 

 adorned with the caudal appendage. So 

 much for the testimony of ancient times. 



And if you come down to modern 

 history, you will find the Dutch traveller, 

 John Struys, who visited the Isle of 

 Formosa, near the coast of China, two 

 centuries ago, asserting that the inhabitants 

 there possessed " tails more than a foot long, 

 covered with red hair, very like that of 

 a cow." 



Colonel du Corret, in a report to the 

 French Academy of Science, declares that 

 when he dwelt at Mecca in 1842, having 

 heard that the Ghilane race had tails, and 

 relating to a friendly Emir how much the 

 savans of Europe disbelieved such things, he 

 ordered one of his slaves called " Belial" 

 to be summoned, when there appeared 

 a thin strong man, about 30 years of age, 



