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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2)

Note 5 — Chapter VIII

John Ingram Lockhart translation

The sus tajassu, pecary, or Mexican musk hog; but what our old soldier, with other writers, mistook for a navel, is an open gland on the lower part of the back, which discharges a fetid ichorous liquor. (p. 22.)

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