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cumstance may be mentioned, of a singular attachment 

 the animal took for two kittens. These it would carry 

 under each arm to their great annoyance ; it seemed to 

 have pleasure also in placing them upon its head, but 

 in this position the claws became troublesome from 

 their restlessness, and were sometimes attempted to 

 be pulled out. This could not be accomplished, but 

 so much pleasure seemed to be experienced by the 

 position, that the inconvenience of their scratches was 

 afterwards unheeded. 



The capture of an adult specimen of this animal, 

 which we noticed at the commencement of our de- 

 scription, took place under the following circumstances, 

 and places the fact of its immense size and strength 

 beyond doubt ; we are indebted also for it to the 

 exertions of Dr Abel, who wrote an account of 

 the remains of the animal for the Asiatic Researches.* 

 It is so interesting that we insert it entire, and have 

 added some illustrations of the skull and teeth from 

 the plates accompanying that gentleman's narrative, 

 and casts of them, which are in the Museum of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



" A boat party under the command of Messrs Craygy- 

 man and Fish, officers of the brig Mary-Anne-Sophia, 

 having landed to procure water at a place called 

 Ramboom, near Touraman, on the north-west coast of 

 Sumatra, on a spot where there was much cultivated 



* Asiatic Researches, vol. xv. p. 941. 



