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“ from the back. The tail was very fmall, and ended in a point.
“ The legs clumfy. The hair along the ridge of the back riling
“ coarfe and ftrong, almoft like briftles. No beard. Over the
“ ihoulder was a large fpreading tuft o f greyilh ha ir ; the reft
“ o f the hair black throughout. The Scrotum globular. Its dif-
“ pofition feemed wild and fierce, and it is faid by the natives
“ to be remarkably l'wift.”
T he deer feem to be the different fort o f axis, Hilt. Quad. i.
p. 117. Mr. Marfden names it the Hog-deer, N° 59, but certainly
not the Baby-roffa, as he fuppofes it, which we ihall hereafter
ihew to be a hog.
T he wild boar is frequent; the domeftic is o f the kind we call
the Chinefe.
T he one-horned Rhinoceros is common. Mr. Charles Miller
informed me by a friend, that the two-horned, N° 80, is fome-
times feen here.
T he forefts abound with elephants: few are applied to ufe;
about ten are kept for ftate by the king o f Acheen; and that
faithful traveller, Mr. Forrejl*, adds, that the inhabitants o f the
capital make ufe o f them as horfes in their journies into the
country. Much o f the ivory is fent to China and to Europe. The
wild elephants colleii in great herds, and are very deftrudtive in.
the plantations. The natives contrive to poifon them, by inferring
a fatal drug into the fugar-canes, fplit for that purpofe.
Of the digitated quadrupeds are found variety o f apes; the
Gibbon, or long-armed, N° 88, in vaft multitudes, generally
perched by hundreds on the tops of trees, and very feklom de-
* Voy. p. 58,
fcending.
fcending. The Ourang Outang is faid' to be found in-Sumatra,
which is probable, as it is met with in the adjacent iflands. The
pig-tailed Baboon, N” 102, is an inhabitant o f this country.
A mong the Battas are numbers of fmall black dog's; with Dogs.
erect ears, which are fattened for food. Wild dogs inhabit all
parts o f the ifland.
‘Tigers are numerous, and very deftruitive ;. they annually kill T ig e r s .:
in the pepper country a hundred people; there are even in-
ftances o f their depopulating whole villages; yet the natives will
not deftroy them, for they hold the doctrine o f tranfmigration,
and fear that- in the tiger thqy may hurt the foul o f an an-
ceftor.
H e r e are two or three fpecies o f leffer kind, called tiger cats.
T he Bear, N° 209, is fmall and black, and devours the heart B e a r s .
or pith of the coco-palms.
Otters and civets finifh the lift given us o f the rapacious ani- O t t e r .
mals o f this ifland. Mr; Marfden mentions an animal called a
Stinkard, I fuppofe one o f the mephitic weefels.
T h e c r e f t e d Porcupine, N° 314, a n d I t h i n k t h e longAailed, p 0 RCUphie;
N° 316, a r e f o u n d i n t h i s c o u n t r y .
Squirrelsfmall,'and o f a dark color, inhabit the woods. S q u i r r e l .
Mr. Marfden mentions a Sloth, the two-toed, N° 451, and the Sl o t h .
Armadillo; he names it the Tanqueeling, which is the ihort-tailed
Manis, N° 460. As to the Armadillo, the whole tribe is confined
to South America.
T he vaft Bats, N° 495, or N° 496, fwarm here, as they do in B a t s v
all the iflands. They fly from ifland to ifland, and in their
* Marfden*s Sumatra, p. 94.
paffage.