MALAY VILLAGE. 361 



T. maculosum, the proboscis is of a whitish-brown colour, 

 reddish towards the tip ; the body is of an opaque pearly 

 white ; the mantle transparent ; the foot semi-pellucid 

 white ; the ocular peduncles are mottled with dark red ; 

 the iris is brown red, and the pupil black. The front of 

 the mantle, edging the anterior part of the shell, is 

 coloured with a black line, forming its margin. 



In the common species, T. subulatum, the eye-peduncles 

 are punctulated with red-brown, as is likewise the upper 

 and under part of the fore-portion of the body. The body 

 is opaque pearly white, with three large, irregular-shaped 

 red-brown blotches on the fore part. The under-surface 

 of the foot is light brown, with a white cross-like marking 

 of a deeper brown Doubtless, when the animal of the 

 variety covered with zig-zag markings shall have been 

 discovered, it will also be found to be specifically distinct. 



We landed one day in April on the little island of 

 Soolaree, in the Sooloo Archipelago, where the Mangrove 

 trees grow in the water along the shores, and strange 

 crabs, and fish of monstrous forms, live beneath their 

 branches. The interior of the island we found to be a 

 salt marsh, in one part forming a lagoon, on whose banks 

 was a pretty little Malay village, peopled by fishermen. 

 Emissaries were sent inviting us to visit their hamlet ; 

 and on our proceeding to the spot, we were received by 

 the chief, and some twenty other Malays, all armed with 

 the lance and kris. Having presented him with a trifle, 

 in the form of a handkerchief for the head, he very civilly 

 escorted us to our boats, and affectionately took his leave. 

 These men were probably pirates, and had our force been 

 smaller, their character might have been very different ; 

 but there is guile even in a savage ! and might with 



