Tacura Tuyn
while engaged in cutting grass had their mules attacked by some
Guayacuyan Indians. The workmen pursued the Indians but only succeeded
in capturing a boy of eight. He was taken to the house of Senor
Francisco Galeochoa at Posedas, and was there discovered to have a tail
ten inches long. On interrogation the boy stated that he had a brother
who had a tail as long as his own, and that all the tribe had tails.

Aetius, Bartholinus, Falk, Harvey, Kolping, Hesse, Paulinus, Strauss,
and Wolff give descriptions of tails. Blanchard says he saw a tail
fully a span in length: and there is a description in 1690 of a man by
the name of Emanuel Konig, a son of a doctor of laws who had a tail
half a span long, which grew directly downward from the coccyx and was
coiled on the perineum, causing much discomfort. Jacob describes a
pouch of skin resembling a tail which hung from the tip of the coccyx
to the length of six inches. It was removed and was found to be thicker
than the thumb, consisted of distinctly jointed portions with synovial
capsules. Gosselin saw at his clinic a caudal appendix in an infant
which measured about ten cm. Lissner says that in 1872 he assisted in
the delivery of a young girl who had a tail consisting of a coccyx
prolonged and covered with skin, and in 1884 he saw the same girl, at
this time the tail measuring nearly 13 cm.

Virchow received for examination a tail three inches long amputated
from a boy of eight weeks. Ornstein, chief physician of the Greek army,
describes a Greek of twenty-six who had a hairless, conical tail, free
only at the tip, two inches long and containing three vertebrae. He
also remarks that other instances have been observed in recruits. Thirk
of Broussa in 1820 described the tail of a Kurd of twenty-two which
contained four vertebrae. Belinovski gives an account of a hip-joint
amputation and extirpation of a fatty caudal extremity, the only one he
had ever observed.

Before the Berlin Anthropological Society there were presented two
adult male Papuans, in good health and spirits, who had been brought
from New Guinea; their coccygeal bones projected 1 1/2 inches. Oliver
Wendell Holmes in the Atlantic Monthly, June, 1890, says that he saw in
London a photograph of a boy with a considerable tail. The "Moi Boy"
was a lad of twelve, who was found in Cochin China, with a tail a foot
long which was simply a mass of flesh. Miller tells of a West Point
student who had an elon