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damage, especially during harvest. Kolbe relates that the 

 Chacma has sometimes the audacity to steal from a traveller his 

 provisions, and, after getting a safe distance with them, im- 

 pudently mocks by grimaces the unfortunate individual it has 

 robbed. 



The Chacma is vindictive ; but as it is at the same time intelli- 



Fig. 255.— Tlie Pupio {Cynocephalus sphiirx). 



gent, when taken young it may be trained to some extent, and 

 made useful. The inhabitants of the Cape employ it to watch 

 their houses, a task which it performs with the greatest vigi- 

 lance. It is also employed, like trained Dogs, to find roots or 



