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would soon be devoured by maggots, small lizards, and ants, 

 leaving me the skeleton. There was a great gash in his face, 

 which had cut deep into the bone, but the skull was a very 

 tine one, and the teeth remarkably large and perfect. 



On June 18 I had another great success, and obtained a 

 fine adult male. A Chinaman told me he had seen him feed- 

 ing by the side of the path to the river, and I found him at 

 the same place as the first individual I had shot. He was 

 feeding on an oval green fruit having a fine red arillus, like 

 the mace which surrounds the nutmeg, and which alone he 

 seemed to eat, biting ofi" the thick outer rind and dropping 

 it in a continual shower. I had found the same fruit in the 

 stomach of some others which I had killed. Two shots 

 caused this animal to loose his hold, but he hung for a con- 

 siderable time by one hand, and then fell flat on his face, and 

 was half buried in the swamp. For several minutes he lay 

 groaning and panting, while we stood close round, expecting 

 every breath to be his last. Suddenly, however, by a vio- 

 lent effort he raised himself up, causing us all to step back a 

 yard or two, when, standing nearly erect, he caught hold of 

 a small tree and began to ascend it. Another shot through 

 the back caused him to fall down dead. A flattened bullet 

 was found in his tongue, having entered the lower part of the 

 abdomen and completely traversed the body, fracturing the 

 first cervical vertebra. Yet it was after this fearful wound 

 that he had risen, and begun climbing with considerable facil- 

 ity. This also was a full-grown male of almost exactly the 

 same dimensions as the other two I had measured. 



On June 21 I shot another adult female, which was eating 

 fruit in a low tree, and was the only one Avhich I ever killed 

 by a single ball. 



On June 24 I was called by a Chinaman to shoot a mias, 

 which he said was on a tree close by his house at the coal- 

 mines. Arriving at the place, we had some difficulty in find- 

 ing the animal, as he had gone off" into the jungle, which was 

 very rocky, and difficult to traverse. At last we found him 

 up a very high tree, and could see that he was a male of 

 the largest size. As soon as I had fired, he moved higher 

 up the tree, and, while he was doing so, I fired again and we 

 then saw that one arm was broken. He had now reached 



