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them in a fork of the tree until she had made herself 

 a nice resting-place. That, however, not being high 

 enough, she climbed up nearly to the top of the tree 

 and then broke all the t^Wgs near her, and thus form- 

 ed a second couch. She did not sway to and fi'o con- 

 tinually, as many monkeys do, but used to sit quietly 

 picking off all the foliage within her reach, and then 

 took up another position and demolished the foliage 

 there in the same manner. It is very singular this 

 animal is found on Sumatra and Borneo, and has 

 never been seen on the Malay Peninsula, which al- 

 most lies between them. 



Fehriiary 11th. — At 7.30 a. m. started on 

 horseback for Lubu Sikeping. At first the road 

 led through the lowland near Bondyol, and then 

 crossing a rapid stream began to ascend a narrow 

 winding valley. My little pony took me up the 

 steep places apparently with as little exertion as if 

 we were ascending a gentle acclivity. Like all the 

 saddle and carriage horses used in the archipelago, he 

 was a sirallion, it being considered among all these 

 islands as disgraceful for a man to ride or drive a 

 mare as it would be in our land for a farmer to plough 

 "vvith a yoke of cows. Even geldings are never seen, 

 and, as would naturally be expected, the stallions, 

 unless remarkably well-trained, are very \dcious, and, 

 worse than all, extremely capricious, springing, or 

 kicking, or halting, without any provocation, and 

 without giving their rider the slightest warning ; liut, 

 when they are perfectly trainer!, they are among the 

 finest saddle-horses in the world, they are so fleet and 

 Ko sure-footed. In a short time the narrow vallev 



