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forehead to the tail. The head is long, the ears are 

 broad and well covered with hair, the eyes large with 

 black pupils, the nose is sharp, the upper lip extend- 

 ed beyond the lower, and the mouth, which is deeply 

 cleft, contains twelve incisorial teeth, four sharp 

 canine, and sixteen grinders. The hind feet are 

 longer than the fore, and on each foot are five toes 

 armed with nails, which serve the animal to dig deep 

 burrows in the earth, where it secures its young. 

 It always carries its head down, and the tail, which 

 is covered with long hair, turned over upon its back 

 like the squirrel. 



Th€ urine of the chinghue is not, as is generally 

 supposed, fetid, but the odour, so disgusting to every 

 other animal, proceeds from a greenish oil contained 

 in a vesicle placed, as in the pole-cat, near the anus. 

 When the animal is attacked, it elevates its posteriors 

 and scatters this loathsome liquid npon its assailant. 

 Nothing can equal the offensiveness of its smell ; it 

 penetrates every where, and may be perceived at a 

 great distance. Garments that are infected with it 

 cannot be worn for a long time, and not until repeat- 

 ed washings ; and the dogs, after having been en- 

 gaged with the chinghue, run to the water, roll them- 

 selves in the mud, howl as if they were mad, and 

 will eat nothing as long as the smell continues about 

 them. 



The chinghue, when attacked, never nciakes use 

 of its teeth or claws, but relies entirely upon this 

 singular mode of defence. It appears to be attached 

 to the society of men, and approaches them without 

 the least apprehension, boldly enters the CQuoirj 



