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Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)

Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 391

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ristles, and, taking him all in all, he is about as formidable-looking an animal, for his size, as can be seen. ‘The Bosch Varks traverse the forests in herds, and subsist on roots and young shrubs. A large hard-shelled sort of orange, with an interior filled with seeds, grows in great quan- tities… … “The Kaffir tribes, although they refuse to eat the flesh of the domestic pig, will stil feast without compunction on that of its bush brother. “In the bush I always found the Kaffirs disinclined to encounter a herd of these wild Swine, stating as their reason for doing so that the animals were…

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