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HPHIS beautiful animal, which has lately fo much excited 

 ■*■ the curiofity, and exercifed the pens rather than the 

 judgment of fome naturalifts, was brought to me at Al- 

 giers by Mahomet Rais, my drugoman or janizary, while 



conful-general to his Majefty in that regency. 



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MAHOMETRaisboughtit fortwofequins from an acquaint- 

 ance, a Turkiih oldafh, or foot-foldier, juft then returned 

 from Bifcara, a fouthcrn difcnct of Mauritania Caefarienfis, 

 now called the Province of Conflantina. The foldier faid 

 they were not uncommon in Bifcara, but more frequently 

 met with in the neighbouring date territories of Beni Mez- 

 zab and Werglah, the ancient habitations of the Melano- 

 ■■Gxtuli ; in the laix mentioned of which places they hunted 

 them for their ikins, which they fent by the caravan to 

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