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obliged by force, as by opening its jaws ; for beating availed but little. 

 When attacked or suddenly startled, he would erect all his hair, and 

 would snarl and snap with great vehemence. 



The eyes were small and not prominent ; not projecting beyond the 

 surface of the body. The ears were also without any projection, being 

 almost quite level with the surface of the head; nor did the orbits 

 project, the head being one line in every direction from the nose upwards. 



The voice was a grunting, or a noise resembling sawing, so much so 

 as to deceive people who did not see him. When he drank, he did not 

 lap like a dog, nor suck like a horse, but it seemed to be a mixture of 

 both actions. 



Internal Structure. — The stomach is much the same as in the dog ; 

 its coat seemed thin, principally upon the left side: the pylorus is 

 almost in the middle of the abdomen. The duodenum passes to the 

 right and down over the right kidney to near the brim of the pelvis ; 

 and is there tucked down to the back, and then becomes a common 

 loose intestine, which is continued on to the rectum. The length of the 

 intestinal canal from the mouth to the anus was 9 feet 9 inches. The 

 length of the animal from the tip of the nose to the anus or root of the 

 tail was 2 feet 1 inch: the length from the mouth, to the pylorus 

 was 1 foot 4 inches. 



The epiploon enclosed, or was wrapped round, the small intestines ; 

 it is fatty and membranous ; it is attached to the curve of the stomach 

 all round upon the anterior side ; the posterior edge is attached to the 

 transverse pancreas, and passes from the pancreas to the back, so that 

 the pancreas may be said to lie in the doubling of the epiploon. 



The anus projects beyond the bones of the pelvis two inches at least. 

 The bags at the anus are beyond the outside of the pelvis. There is a 

 great deal of fat about the anus and inside of the thighs. 



The liver is divided into four lobes, besides the lobulus Spigelii. The 

 second from the left, or large lobe, has a large fissure in it for the round 

 ligament ; a little on the right of that is a small fissure for the fundus 

 of the gall-bladder. The gall-bladder was large and contorted; its 

 duct was folded up upon the bladder, afterwards making several turns 

 upon itself: it enters the duodenum about an inch beyond the pylorus. 



There are two pancreases : the large one passes across the body to 

 the left side ; the smaller one passes down to the curve of the duodenum, 

 taking the sweep of that gut, gets behind the vena portarum, and at its 

 ends joins the large or transverse pancreas. 



The kidneys are very low in the body, almost down to the brim of 

 the pelvis. The ovarium lies as high as the kidneys. The uterus has 

 two horns, as in the bitch. There are only four nipples, two on each 



