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N a t i v e s .
Q u a d r u p e d s .
M A L A Y A N I S L E S .
I am not qualified to give any account of the natives o f t-hefe
Appennines o f Java. The general defcription is, that their faces1
are flat, their cheeks broad, their hair ihort and black,, their eyebrows
large, their eyes very fmall. They boaft that they are defended
from the Cbinefe; i f true, we may account for the probability
of that nation migrating to-this, illand i; they may have:
been from the beginning in the conftant habit of frequenting:
the coafls. The manners, o f the mountaneers. are faid to be
fierce and barbarous, and their rites idolatrous.. The inhabitants-
o f the cities and coafts are Mahometans. Reprefentations o f the:
perfons of the Javanese in different, charadters. are given by Mr.
Nieubojf, in. his.travels *, in Linfchotten\-, and in the very curious-
old book of voyages already cited, are numbers o f prints, beginning
at p. 27, and continued to.p. 37 ; and at p. 36 is- given the
manner o f a.dance, or rather a mimical reprefentation, exadtly
like the elegant one at p. 248, plate 1 6 , 1 7 , o f the firft volume o f
Captain Cook's, laft voyage..
LeBrun\ reprefents a very curious figure of one o f the favage
natives o f the fouthern coaft: he feemed a fine made man,
almoft black; his head covered with thick frizzled hair, lips-
large, nofe depreffed, body naked, except a cloth round his
walle; on the right arm and left leg. an ivory r in g ; his weapons
were a itrong bow, feveral lances headed with fomething:
iharp, and one with a bearded bone, perhaps that o f lome ray.
The painter, however, has certainly got hold of a native of the
Papua iilands, and not o f the fouth o f Java.
In enumerating the quadrupeds o f this illand, I fhall omit all
♦P.p. 315. 319. f P . 20.1 ' % Vol. ji. tab, 197.
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which are in common to Sumatra; and that I believe, with very
few exceptions, to be the cafe.
Horses were found here on its firft difcovery; they are H o r s e s ,
fmall, but ftrong and fpirited, and run wild among the interior
mountains.
O x e n , the fame as my Indian, Hift. Quad. p . 2 0 , ar, are com- O x e h ,
mon, with and without hunches; thole without are higher lhoul-
dered than ufual; they are miferably lean, with a finer grain*
but lefs juicy than the European. Mr. Loten told me that wild
oxen, o f a xeddilh brown color, with vail horns, and o f a great
iize, are found in Java.
T he African or Cabrito iheep ale common, and very bad S h e e r ;
■eating. The broad-tailed is brought from the Cape for fale, and
is elteemed excellent.
T he Axis, hT 56, is found in this illand, as is the middle D e e r ;
Jxed, N° 57.
T he Ribbed Face, N” 60, called by the Javans, MuHtjak, is
■reckoned delicate food.
T he little Indian Muß, N° 67, and the Guinea, N“68, perhaps
.a variety, inhabit Java. The Poet-pang o f the Javans aré
caught in filares, brought in cages to market, and fold for the
value o f two pence halfpenny a piece.
T he one-horned Rhinoceros, N° 81, is frequent. As to ele- R h i n o c e * o s .
phants, they are not mentioned b y . Mi. Nieubojf, and Bonlius
even fays that they are not found in this illand:
The Sucotyr0 o f the Cbinefe is engraven by the former*, and sucotyro.
,-thus defcribed: it is o f the fize o f a large o x ; has a fnout like ä
* Churchill’s Ctill. vol.'tf. p. 360.
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