1^6 ISLAND OF CEYLON. 



The Rillow or Rolleut^ay, N" 122, is diftinguiflied by the long 

 hair on its head, lying flat and parted. They are as large as 

 a blood-hound, and are able to catch hold of a child, and run 

 up with it to the top of the loftieft trees ; and after admiring it 

 for feme time, they will lay it gently down on the place they 

 took it from. Thefe are very numerous, and very audacious, 

 and will rob the corn fields and gardens in the very face of the 

 owners, and as foon as they are driven out of one end of the 

 field, will come Skipping into the other, and fill both their 

 bellies and hands. Of late years it has been difcovered, by a 

 Rujfmn tanner, that their fkins might be drefTed, and made 

 into flioes. 



The tail-lefs Macauco, N' 146, and the Loris, N° 148, are 

 found here. 

 jACKAt. The jackal, N* 172, is numerous here, as it is all over India. 



Tiger. The tiger, N' 180, is too frequent in Ceylon. Thefe animals 



are fliot with crofs-bows, placed in their haunts. Pliny fays, 

 that tigers and elephants were made by the people the execu- 

 tioners of their kings, whenever they had offended them. They 

 appointed a folemn hunting match, and expofed their monarch 

 to the fury of thofe beafts. 

 Beak. Bears, N° 2o8, are very common, even in this neighbor- 



hood of the Line. /^o//"fays, they are large and black, and feed 

 on honey, as they do in Europe. 

 Civet. The Civef, N" 274, is frequent in Ceylon. 



The" Mungo, or Indian Ichneumon, N' 255, is found here. 



This weefel is famous for its antipathy to the Naja, or Cobra de 



Capelloy and for its inftant recourfe to the antidote to the fatal 



4 bite, 



