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far to see. The floor of the lake must be some considerable 

 height above sea-level, at least forty or fifty feet, but we had 

 no means of ascertaining this with any exactitude. The lake 

 is said to be inhabited by a white crocodile, which is, however, 

 of benignant disposition and does not attack human beings. 



Terutau lies north of Langkawi, from which it is separated 

 by a channel about four miles in minimum breadth. In area 

 it is considerably smaller than Langkawi, being roughly 

 about sixteen miles long by about four in maximum breadth, 

 the longer axis running north and south. Its surface is 

 extraordinarily rugged and there is little or no cultivation on 

 it, and but few permanent inhabitants, the majority being 

 merely fishermen, who visit the island for the six months' 

 calm season and live in one or two sheltered bays on the 

 east coast. 



The west coast, exposed as it is to the full force of the 

 S.W. monsoon, is quite uninhabited. At the south end of 

 the island the coast is sandy and fringed with Sheoaks or 

 Casuarinas, but on the east, where the sheltered waters permit 

 the growth of mangroves, it is muddy, while the west is almost 

 sheer rock. Like Langkawi, Terutau is mostly clothed with 

 thick jungle to the summit of the highest hills, which are 

 slightly lower than those of the first-mentioned island, but on 

 the cast side there is a small extent of open ground which is 

 pastured by buffaloes brought over from the mainland. They 

 are now almost feral. We stopped at the south end at Telok 

 I dang, or Prawn Point, for a day or two in December 1907, 

 and also for a few days at a small but excellent anchorage on 

 the east side marked on the charts as " Wanderer Bay." 

 Our collectors also stopped at the same localities for nearly 

 a month in March 1909. 



The birds of Terutau are identical with those of Langkawi, 

 but the mammals are slightly different, the larger Mouse 

 Deer, as is very often the case with the insular forms, 

 especially presenting a marked change in coloration, while 

 the common Palm-Squirrel is also distinct. In addition the 

 island boasts of several Rats, a peculiar Porcupine, and a large 

 Flying-Squirrel which we were not so fortunate as to obtain, 



