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nuated nose. It possesses the snout and ear of a hog, and withal, a pig-like expression of face. The fore-feet are provided 
with four robust nails, which, forming a complete rake, enable the animal to dig into the bowels of the mound; its taper 
tongue, covered with a glutinous secretion, being always in readiness to seize the swarming inmates as fast as they issue 
from their beleaguered abode. Never moving abroad during the day, this animal is rarely seen; and any attempt to unearth 
it usually proves unsuccessful —the beast continuing to burrow deeper during the operation, and digging out the soil with 
its long toe-nails, much faster than can his two-footed enemies, even when armed with an iron spade. 
Differing greatly in external appearance, the equipments as well as the habits of the second species are yet essentially 
the same. Seen from a distance, the Pangolin, or Manis,* might easily be mistaken for a small alligator, the neck being 
totally confounded with the head and body. The upper parts are clad in a complete panoply of flexible armour, consisting 
of numerous stout horny triangular scales, of a cockle-shell shape, overlapping each other like the tiles of a house, and 
presenting an appearance precisely similar to the bark of the brab-tree. Slow, gentle, and inoffensive, the Pangolin lives in 
holes, burrows, and fissures in the rocks, seldom wandering far from its lonely retreat; and although calculated neither by 
appetite nor by disposition for a life of predatory warfare, it can deride the attack of every beast of prey — possessing, in 
addition to its coat of mail, the power of rolling itself, like the hedgehog, into a ball—by which faculty this otherwise 
defenceless animal is rendered perfectly invulnerable to the assaults of its foes. 
* Manis Temminckit. 
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