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hundred feet in height, or lay twisted in snake- 

 like coils upon the ground. As we were sauntering 

 quietly along the river, I heard a rustling in a 

 patch of low bush covered with convolvuli and 

 other parasitical plants, and almost immediately I 

 saw something brown moving quickly through the 

 bushes. Without knowing what it was, for it was 

 getting along very quickly, I threw up my rifle and 

 fired a snap shot, which evidently took effect, for 

 there was a violent struggling in the underwood, 

 and running up I found a barking deer shot 

 through the loins, but still trying to drag itself 

 through the bushes, although the hind legs were 

 paralysed, to which Chineah gave a coup de grace 

 with his knife. 'J'he kakur, or barking deer, is 

 the smallest of the mountain deer, not being more 

 than two feet three inches at the shoulder, and 

 about four in length. The general colour is a 

 brownish red, some parts of the head and flanks 

 approaching to yellow, and under the belly and 

 inside the thighs tawny white. The head is a dusky 

 gray, darkening to black towards the muzzle, and 

 furnished with horns about nine inches long, having 

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