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ridge, a solitary boar was bagged, not apparently in the least perturbed 
by the explosion of the gun in shooting a hornbill only 70 yards away. 
A flying lemur (Galeopithecus volans) was observed clinging to the 
side of a tree, hanging at the full extent of its fore legs with the tail 
tucked away out of sight, and certainly not head downwards as reported 
by Blanford. This specimen was a beautiful soft grey in colour, and 
when disturbed the parachute was seen to be adark brown. It floated 
away to the base of a tree, and flopped up the trunk in a most ungainly 
way. When hanging on the trunk of a tree it has the appearance of a 
pear-shaped excrescence, and finding itself observed would impercep- 
tibly sidle round the trunk. At 900 metres a monitor (Varanus 
nebulosus) was shot while eating a lizard of the genus Calotes, and 
afforded a pleasant change in a daily diet of dried pig, the flesh having 
the appearance of fish and a taste resembling chicken. 
Work on this ridge being completed, on the 18th July camp 
was shifted down to the stream, the sick men being pushed and rolled 
down, and the treatment apparently did them good for none died. 
Making these men as comfortable as possible and putting the cons 
valescents in charge, the following day I climbed a ridge of 1,000 metre- 
to the North, taking with me 4 days rice, and water for one night. The 
first day on the ridge was fine and a considerable amount of work was 
completed, but on the following day, shifting camp again northwards 
along the ridge, the clouds never lifted for more than three or four 
minutes at a time, several hours being wasted searching for a Trig. 
point near which I wished tocamp. During the search, an immense 
solitary boar was shot, standing 33 inches at the shoulder. This beast 
was very fat and estimated to weigh about 300 lbs. Only one testicle 
had dropped. The tusks were fair, being about 9 inches in length, 
This ridge was broader than usual, and running water was 
obtaincd only 50 imetres below the summit. Daring the next twelve 
days the climatic conditions were not pleasant. The mountaing on the 
Tennasserim side, to the West, being of low elevation, the full force of 
the monsoon whistled through the trees, driving clouds and mist 
through the camp, and the tree tops were usually invisible. Mosses 
and orchis flourished on the firewood, and did not wither till actually 
licked by the flames. Land leeches paraded about the kitchen, and a 
small blood-sucking fly left peculiar blood spots beneath the skin on 
exposed parts of the hody. he fly attacked the bare legs of the coolies, 
