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(civet) is that which is <strong>of</strong> a deepe yellow colour some-what inclining to the<br />

colour <strong>of</strong> Gold, not whitish, for that is usually sophisticated with grease —<br />

Purchas, His Pilgrimes, III, 504. (Mac Lehose edit.).<br />

Although the wu-na-tsH from Borneo here mentioned was unquestion-<br />

ably a secretion <strong>of</strong> the sea-dog, the true civet-cat may also have been found<br />

there. Three centuries later <strong>Ju</strong>an Gonzalez de Mendoza mentions it as very<br />

abundant in the neighbouring islands <strong>of</strong> the Philippines. Purchas, op. cit.,<br />

XII, 147.<br />

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