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1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xix. 172:
I noticed a peculiarity which distinguished these bats from any others with which I had come in contact (and on the Rio Negro my experiences in this respect had been ghastly and terrible: men wither and die there from nightly visitations of vampire bats).
