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thing of no sport-giving qualities, and I only shot 

 because, being somewhat nocturnal in its habits, it 

 is not frequently seen, and I wanted to make a 

 near study of its differentiation from the South 

 American type. In a few words this may be 

 summed up; the Malay type has a whitish back, 

 longer snout and flat head crown, as compared with 

 the Brazilian tapir, which is all black, has almost 

 no snout, and the head crown elevated. I took the 

 forefeet of my tapir, but subsequently lost them, 

 with other more valuable trophies, when we upset, 

 as we did several times. I had much difficulty in 

 working my way out to the river point where I had 

 landed, and when I did, the canoe was not in sight ; 

 and in the muck and mud of the jungle— for I had 

 got into a very swampy piece of it— it took me 

 nearly three hours to wallow around to a bend 

 lower on the river, by which time it was dark. 

 Finally, however, I raised an answer to my shouts 

 from the sampan, which the Chinamen, indifferent 

 to wild beasts of the jungle as to the cares of the 

 world, and with no dread of the mysterious, had 

 brought in close to the bank and tied to a palm. 

 The canoe I finally discovered a little farther down 

 stream, the men still apparently uneasy. They 

 were a full mile below where I had got out, and I 

 might have walked all night but for the Chinamen. 

 Before turning in that night, on the sampan, 



