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By means of this apparatus they can walk or run across a smooth ceiling with their backs downwards; the plated soles, by quick muscular action, exhausting and admitting air alternately. The Geckos are very repulsive in appearance. The Brazilians give them the name of Osgas, and firmly believe them to be poisonous; they are, however, harmless creatures.
They are also provided with sharp claws, which enable them to climb up the trunks of trees, and over rough surfaces. The Brazilians call them osgas, and believe that they poison by their touch whatever they pass over.
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