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quently not painful ; yet through tills orifice he continues
to fuck the blood, until he is obliged to dilgorge. He
then' begins again, and thus continues fucking and dif-
göfging till he is feareely able. to flyy and the fuffcrer has
often beeri known to fledp from time into eternity. Cattle
they géfaërally bite in the ear, but always in fuch
places where the" blood flows fpontaneoufly* perhaps in
ah artery—but this ikëntèritig rather ön the province of
mëdidâl faculty. Having applied tóbaccö-afhes ias'
the beft remedy^ and wafhed the- gore from myfelf and
from my hammock,: I obferved feveral fmall heaps of
congealed blood all round the place Where I had lain,
upon the ground : upon examining which, - the furgeoh
judged that I'h'adToft at leaft twelve or fourteen ounces
during the night.
VAs I have fincehad an opportunity o f killing one o f
théfe batsf l cut off hisihead, which There preferit to the
reader iff it^matural fize, and as a great euriofity, with
the wholhfigùre flying above -it on a fmaller fcale. Having
mèafured this creature* I found it to bé between the
tips o f the wings thirty-two inches and a half ; it is faid
that fome are above three feet, though nothing like in
fize to the bàtS o f Madagafcar. The devour w^s a dark
brown, nearly black, but lighter under the belly. Its
afpedt was truly hideous upon the whole, but particularly
the head, which has an eredt ïhining membrane above
the-nofe, terminating'ina fhriveiled point: the ears are
long, rounded, and traniparent : the cutting teeth were
four above and fix below. I law no tail, but a ikin, in
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