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animals breed in tin- IidIcs of rocks ; ii litter 

 \v;is tnuiid near Vas Plains, wliirli tin* discoverer 

 failed to destroy, tliiukiug to return and catch 

 the mother also, and thus destroy the wMe 

 feuttily; but the 0M Isidy"*' mtist have heea 

 watching liiiii^ I'oY nil liis returning a short time 

 after, lie found all tln> lillle din^cis had been 

 carried away, and he was never aide, although 

 diligent seareli was made in the vicinity, to 



iiseovef tteiy ^ace of remotaL The coimitig 

 dis^la^yeid 1^ tliese toumals, and the agony they 

 can endtq:J$i millOat evincing the usual effects of 

 pain, would seem almost incrediltlc, had it not 

 been related by those on whose testiniouy every 

 depenieiie^ Ibe pla^* Tbet follow^ 0J» It 

 hit ^tmaag & number of m^temt^hmf iut^aaaces. 



One Iiad been beatefl ^ severely that it was 

 supposed all the hones were broken, and it was 

 left for dead. After the person had walked some 

 distance, upon accidentally looking* buck, his 

 i^ir{»dse mueli excited by ssed»g master 

 dingo*' rise, shake himself, and march into the 

 bu>li. e\ ading all pursuit. — One, snppost-d dead, 

 was 1(1 nui;lit into a hut, for the purpose of under- 

 eoiuu' " decortication at tBie eommencemeut 

 of tM proceaf upm ikii tbe onty 



perc^tible movem«ilfe was ft slight quiveiing of 

 ike lips, which was regarded at the time as 



