292 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



cut up into tliin slices and smoked, and now, in many 

 places on the Mils around the bay of Kayeli, col- 

 umns of smoke are seen rising every day, w^kere tke 

 natives are busy changing venison into dinding^ tke 

 only kind of meat tkey kave except tkat of wild 

 boars, wkick are very abundant on tkis island, tkougli 

 seldom taken. Tkey are accustomed to come out 

 into tke prairie-lands in great droves, and frequently 

 an area of a quarter of an acre is so completely rooted 

 up by tkem tkat it looks as if it kad been plougked. 

 Tkey even come by nigkt to tke gardens, or culti- 

 vated places, at a little distance from tke village, and 

 in a skort time destroy almost every tking growing 

 in tkem. One time, seeing a rare bird percked kigk 

 on tke top of a J one tree tkat stood in tke tall grass, I 

 cautiously approacked witkin range and fired, wken 

 suddenly tkere was a rattling of koofs on tke dry 

 ground, caused by tke stampede of a large kerd 

 witkin pistol-skot of wkere we were, but entirely 

 kidden from our view by tke tkick grass. Tke na- 

 tives are usually afraid of tkem, and tke one wko was 

 crawling along bekind me to pick up tke bird fled at 

 tke top of kis speed wken ke keard tke tkundering 

 tread of more tkan a kundred koofs, wkile I stood 

 wondering wkat sort of beasts kad so suddenly 

 sprung out of tke eartk, and kalf querying wketker 

 my skot, as tkey fell on tke ground, kad not been 

 ckanged into quadrupeds in tke same miraculous way 

 tkat tke dragon teetk, sown by Cadmus, were trans- 

 formed into men. Tke kog-deer, or hahwusa^ is also 

 found among tkese mountains. Wkile I was at Ka- 

 yeli a young one was caugkt by some of tke natives. 



