[C]ases not seldom occur where patients are discovered to be the recipients of dual treatment, and there is reason to believe that attendance at a hospital is often used as a means of obtaining alms in a form more acceptable than drugs, and that the latter are unceremoniously made away with in any manner rather than by pouring them down the pseudo-patient’s throat.

The hystricognaths include several lines that radiated in Africa and South America in the Oligocene and Miocene.[…]The largest hystricognath group is the Caviomorpha, the South American guinea pigs, capybaras, chinchillas and New World porcupines.

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The kulas were indeed like fortresses, with as many as twenty 'guns', ie. adult men ready to fight.