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Their only vice, if this failing can be so called, is ine- 

 briation i but in their cups they are generally jovial 

 and good-humoured. It sometimes however happens 

 at their feasts, that the men of different villages fall out; 

 and the quarrel immediately becomes general, In 

 these cases they terminate their differences in a pitched 

 battle, where the only weapons used are long sticks, 

 or a hard and knotty wood. With these they drub 

 one another most heartily, till, no longer able to en- 

 dure the conflict, they mutually put a stop to I 

 combat, and all get drunk again. 



ON THE 



LORIS, OR SLOW-PACED LEMUR. 



BY THE PRESIDENT. 



f I A HE singular animal, which most of you saw alive, 

 and of which I now lay before you a perfectly 

 accurate figure, has been very correctly described by 

 Linn. i;cs; except that sickled would have been a 

 juster epithet than awled for the bent claws on its hin- 

 der indices ; and that the size of a squirrel seems an 

 improper, because a variable measure : its configura- 

 tion and colours are particularized also with great ac- 

 curacy by M. Daubenton ; but the short account 

 ot the Lor is, by M. De Ei/ffon, appears unsatisfac- 

 tory, 



