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escilis, and S. melanotis, together with several kinds of 

 Tupaias are also found. At the northern extremity we 

 observed large numbers of a great deer which came 

 down to drink at the pools of brackish water that 

 abound there, most probably identical with the Cervus 

 hippelaphus of Cuvier, which is also found in India ; 

 the Antelopes of that continent are represented by 

 the Pigmy Musk, (Moschus Javanicus,} a diminutive and 

 graceful little animal, which bears the same relation to the 

 poetry of Malayan Asia, as the Gazelle does to that of 

 Persia and Arabia. The Bovine races which inhabit 

 India, as the Bos frontalis or Gaour, and the Ami or 

 wild Buffalo of Hindostan, are represented in Borneo by 

 herds of wild cattle, which so far as I could make them 

 out at Point Sampang Mengayu, where they are very 

 numerous, have short curved horns, long legs, small dew- 

 laps, and a straight back; the domestic Ox which I have 

 also seen is perfectly different, and owes its descent most 

 probably from the Zebu, as the wild one does from the 

 Arni. That striking resemblances can be made between 

 the Faunas, not of northern or central Asia, but of Hin- 

 dostan and Malacca, is not to be very much wondered at, 

 when we consider that the chain of the Great Indian 

 Archipelago is nothing more than a long, curved, disjointed 

 mass of land broken by volcanic force from the south- 

 eastern portion of the Asiatic continent, and separated 

 merely by the superficial waters of the China Sea. The 

 breed of small and wolf-like dogs employed by the Dyaks 

 in hunting the boar, are stated to occur in a wild state, 

 thus representing the Dingo of Australia, and the Canis 

 rutilans, or Wild-dog of the Mountains of Asia. Sumatra 



