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bis friends, to collect all the intelligence they can 
poffibly procure concerning this animal ; and in 
the courfe of the next year, fome fatisfadory in- 
formation may. perhaps be received from thence, 
though the natives of that country, he fays, have - 
no turn whatever after natural hilfory; and in- 
deed are very little • inquilitive after any kind of- 
knowledge,. 
XXII. Ob^ 
