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THE mongoos is less than the macauco; but its hair is, like that, ot a 
short and silken nature, but a little curled; the nose is also thicker. Buffon 
had a mongoos in his possession for several years; its coat was of a brown 
color, the eyes yellow, the nose black, and the ears short. It had a custom 
of playing with and biting its tail, and had, by this method, lessened it by 
four or five of the last vertebre. Whenever it got loose, it visited the shops 
in the neighborhood, and would make free with fruit, sugar, sweetmeats, &c.5 
to obtain which it would open the boxes. At such times, it was difficult to 
retake it; and it would bite those that attempted it, even its keeper. 

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