138 _ THE VISCERAL ANATOMY 
tinues on obliquely backwards, the anterior returning portion of which 
returns to the right hypochondriac region, where its mesentery is very 
incomplete, and it is firmly bound down to the adjacent parietes. The 
transverse colon, running from this point, is situated quite above the 
colic loop, and is also bound down at the left hypochondrium as at the 
right. The third part of the colon (the descending in man) is very 
sinuous in its course; it ends by a very simple igi flexure, and is 
continued on as the capacious rectum. 
The cecum is 3 feet long, and of nearly the same diameter; it is 
pyriform in shape, and much like that of the Tapir, the blind end 
being the narrower. It is traversed by three long longitudinal bands, 
between which it is folded in large sacculi. The colon springs from 
Fig. 5. 
Inferior view of the colon of C. sumatrensis. 
ce, cecum ; ¢./, colic loop; ¢, transverse colon, placed above the colic loop to show 
it more clearly. 
