EXTINCTION THREAT
PKIiVHTI YE . ANIMAL * lIGM.;KONG, Jan. 11. War (i China and threats to Hongkong’s lstsC l security leave the learned delihere.i .• is ol that colony’s field naturalists quite undisturbed. Their Journal is seriously concerned about saving the scaly ant-eater,-most primitive ol' annuals, from extinction. and says that the reason it is disappearing so last is because it makes such excellent magic for the medicine men. Dried scales are roasted, broken - (jnto ashes, then either cooked again > 4<r*h oil, butter, er vinegar. or else J roasted again with earth or oyster shells to make “a most powerful magic” for the “cure” of nervous chdviren, malaria, and deafness.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 21, 8 April 1938, Page 3
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107EXTINCTION THREAT Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 21, 8 April 1938, Page 3
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