SUMATRA. 



fceiiding. The Ourang Outang is faid to be found in Sumatra, 

 which is probable, as it is met with in the adjacent iflands. The 

 pig-tailed Baboon, N° 102, is an inhabitant of this country. 



Among the Battas are numbers of fmall black dogs, with Docs. 

 ere(5l ears, which are fattened for food. Wild dogs inhabit all 

 parts of the ifland. 



Tigers are numerous, and very deftrudive ; they annually kill Tigers* 

 in the pepper country a hundred people ; there are even in- 

 ftances of their depopulating whole villages ; yet the natives will 

 not deftroy them, for they hold the doctrine of tranfmigration, 

 and fear that in the tiger they may hurt the foul of an an- 

 ceil:or. 



Here are two or three fpecies of lelTer kind, called tiger cats. 



The Bear, N° 209, is fmall and black, and devours the heart Bears. 

 or pith of the coco-palms. 



Otters and civets finifh the lift given us of the rapacious ani- Otter. 

 mals of this ifland. Mr. Mar/den mentions an animal called a 

 Stinkard, I fuppofe one of the mephitic weefels. 



The crefted Porcupine, N° 314, and I think the long-tailed, porcupine. 

 N° 316, are found in this country. 



Squirrels'^, fmall, and of a dark color, inhabit the woods. Squirrel. 



Mr. Mar/den mentions a Sloth, the two-toed, N°45r, and the Sloth. 

 Armadillo ; he names it the Tanqueeling, which is the lliort-tailed 

 Manis, N" 460. As to the Armadillo, the whole tribe is confined 

 to South America. 



The vaft Bats, N' 495, or N° 496, fwarm here, as they do in Bats, 

 all the iflands. They fly from illand to ifland, and in their 



* MarJden'%^Sumatra^ p. 94, 



pafTage 



