“ WOUFF ” AND “ SCALES.” 
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manner, said that she pretended to be very quiet ; 
but s’pose no man lookee,” she run. very fast. 
She was certainly of an exceedingly timid and 
retiring disj)osition, tucking in her head between 
her fore-legs on the least alarm. So apathetic a 
(piadmped appeared our Pangolin ” (for so was 
she called by the I\Ialays), that, coiled up in a 
strong net, I considered her properly secured, and 
carefully deposited her in my cabin. No sooner, 
however, had the last gleam of light vanished from 
my little scuttle,” than she knew the period of her 
lethargy had expired, and, bursting the trammels 
of her hempen toil, she roamed abroad. The first 
intimation I had of her escape was the ominous 
bark of Master “ Wouff,” a clever little terrier on 
board. The dog, puzzled by the cpieer scaly rat he 
had suddenly encountered, regarded with imjjotent 
rage the lizard -like intruder; while ‘^Scales,” secure 
in her coat of mail, bid defiance to the attacks of 
her canine assailant. 
The scaly ant-eater is called by the Chinese of 
Quang - tung, ‘ ' Chun - shau - c^p,” which literally 
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