The various species of manis are famed for their powerful coats of armour.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
This ant-eater is known as the "pangolin," or "manis," but there are several species of "pangolin" not African.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
Wanderoo, mode of flight among trees, 9. monkeys never found dead, 11. Loris, 12. tortures inflicted on it, 13. Bat, flying fox, 14. skeleton of, 14. attracted by toddy to the coco-nut palms, 18. horse-shoe bat, 18. parasite of the bat, Nycteribia, 20, 21. bears, 22. bears dreaded in Ceylon, 24. leopards, 25. attracted by the odour of small pox, 28. anecdote of a leopard, 29. lesser felines, 32. dogs, Pariah, 34. jackal, 34. the jackal's horn, 36. Mongoos, 37. assaults of Mongoos on the serpent, 38. squirrels, 41. the flying squirrel, 41. rats, the rat snake, 42. coffee rat, 43, 44. bandicoot, 44, 45. porcupine, 45. pengolin, 46-48. the gaur, 49. the ox, 50. anecdote of, 51. draft oxen, 51-53. the buffalo, 54. sporting buffaloes, 55. peculiarity of the buffalo's foot, 56. deer, 57. meminna, 57, 58. Ceylon elk, 59. wild boar, 59. elephant, 69, 75. whale and dugong, 68, 69. peculiarities of Ceylon mammalia, 73. list of, 73. Manaar, mermaid taken at, 69. elephants shipped at, 162. pearl fishery, 373. manis.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent