Deer. 



Wild Boar. 



Rhinoceros. 



Elephants. 



Apes. 



iM A I. A Y A N ISLES. 



" from the back. The tail was very fmall, and ended in a point. 

 " The legs clumly. The hair along the ridge of the back rifing 

 " coarfe and itrong, almoft like briftles. No beard. Over the 

 " Ihoulder was a large fpreading tuft of greyifh hair ; the reft 

 '' of the hair black throughout. The Scrotujn globular. Its dif- 

 " pofition feemed wild and fierce, and it is faid by the natives 

 " to be remarkably fwift." 



The deer feem to be the different fort of axis, Hift. Quad, i, 

 p. 117. Mr. Marjden names it the Hog-deer^ N° 59, but certainly 

 not the Baby-rciffa, as he fuppofes it, which we fliall hereafter 

 lliev/ to be a hog. 



The zvild boar is frequent; the domeftic is of the kind we call 

 the Cbinefe. 



The one-horned Rhinoceros is common. Mr. Charles Miller 

 informed me by a friend, that the two-horned^ N° 80, is fome- 

 times feen here. 



The forefts abound v.ith elephants: few are applied to ufe; 

 about ten are kept for ftate by the king oi Acheen \ and that 

 faithful traveller, Mr. Forrejl*, adds, that the inhabitants of the 

 capital make v.fe of them as horfes in their journies into the 

 country. Much of the ivory is fent to China and to Europe. The 

 wild elephants colle6t in great herds, and are very defl:ru6tive in 

 the plantations. The natives contrive to poifon them, by in^- 

 ferting a fatal drug into the fugar-canes, fplit for that purpofe. 



Of the digitated quadrupeds are found variety of apes : the 

 Gibbouy or long-armed, N° 88, in vaft multitudes, generally 

 perched by hundreds on the tops of trees, and very feklom de-^ 



* Voy. p. 58. 



fcending. 



