BOBAK. 
seem never affe6led with thirst. They are 
mild, and gooJ-natared : in a wild state, they 
never quarrel about their food ; and when 
conhned, and placed with others caught in dis- 
tant parts, and strangers to them, they grow 
instantly familiar. When taken in full age, 
they very soon become tame ; but the young 
are immediately familiar. 
The number produced at a birth, is not with 
certainty known : but, Mr. Pennant thinks, it 
is, probably, sometimes eight ; the females 
being furnished with that number of teats. 
They breed early; for, in June, the young are 
observed to be half the size of the old. 
During the winter, they remain torpid : ex- 
cept such as are kept tame in the stove -warmed 
rooms of the country ; and, even then, hnding 
a defe6l of that warmth which the snug nest 
of their subterraneous retreat would afford, 
they creep, in cold nights, for shelter, into the 
very beds of the inhabitants. At this period, 
they will not absolutely refuse food ; but eat 
very little, and that not without aj^parcnt dis- 
gust: nature allotting for tlicni, in the wild 
state, 
