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abounds in rhinoceroses, elephants, and deer. If the 

 leeches attack them as they did a dog that followed 

 us, they must prove one of the most efficient means 

 of destroying those large animals. It is at least for- 

 tunate for the elephant and rhinoceros that they are 

 pachyderms. While passing through the places 

 where the jungle is mostly composed of bamboos, 

 we saw several large troops of small, slate-colored 

 monkeys, and, among the taller trees, troops of an- 

 other species of a light-yellow color, with long arms 

 and long tails. On the morning that I left Tanjong 

 Agong, as we passed a tall tree by the roadside, the 

 natives cautioned me to keep quiet, for it was " fiill 

 of monkeys," and, when we were just under it, 

 they all set up a loud shout, and at once a whole 

 troop sprang out of its high branches like a flock of 

 birds. Some came down twenty-five or thirty feet 

 before they struck on the tops of the small trees be- 

 neath them, and yet each would recover, and go off 

 through the jungle, with the speed of an an-ow, in 

 a moment. 



While nearly all animals have a particular area 

 which they frequent — as the low coast region, the 

 plateaus of these tropical lands, or the higher parts of 

 tlie mountains — the rhinoceros lives indifferently any- 

 where between the sea-shores and the tops of the high- 

 est peaks. This species has two " horns," the first being 

 the longer and more sharply pointed, but the Java 

 species has only one. The natives here know nothing 

 of the frequent combats between these animals and 

 elephants, that are so frequently pictured in popular 

 works on natui-al histoiy. The Resident has, how- 



