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CURIOUS BEES NESTS. 



of the face. The height at the shoulder was three feet four 

 inches, length from snout to root of tail six feet three inches, 

 length of head one foot three inches. Now, as the length of 

 a tolerably fine Indian boar is five feet from snout to root of 

 tail, and stands a little over two feet six inches, this fellow 

 was indeed a monster. 



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On the same morning I saw some curious bees' nests 

 made by a little bee not larger than a house fly. The nests 

 were made of earth, and stuck on the side of a tree, and had 

 long tubes sticking out like the neck of a bottle. 



After five months' sojourn in Labuan, I returned to 

 Singapore in April, 1849. 



1 A Species of Trigonia. 



