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fierce, and to attack a man if any way prefled. At this time 

 he mounts eafily upon the higheft trees ; at other times he is 

 content with hiding himfelf in bufhes, but in the feafon of 

 the fly he takes to holes and caverns in the ground. I 

 never faw its young ones, nor did 1 ever hear any noife it 

 makes, for the mot killed him outright, but did not in the 

 leaft disfigure him ; fo that the reader may depend upon 

 this reprefentation of him as I have given it, with all pofftV 

 ble truth and precifion. 



^EJS^ 



