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affords many places favourable for its resort. On ascending these 

 mountains, the traveller seldom fails to meet with our animal, which, 

 from its peculiarities, is universally known to the inhabitants of these 

 elevated tracts ; while to those of the plains, it is as strange as an 

 animal from a foreign country. A traveller would inquire in vain for 

 the Teledu at Batavia, Samarang, or Surabaya. In my visits to the 

 mountainous districts I uniformly met with it, and as far as the informa- 

 tion of the natives can be relied on, it is found on all the mountains. 

 It is, however, more abundant on those which, after reaching a certain 

 elevation, consist of numerous connected horizontal ridges, than on 

 those which terminate in a defined conical peak. Of the former 

 description are the Mountain Prahu and the Tengger Hills, which are 

 both distinctly indicated in Sir Stamford Raffles' map of Java ; here I 

 observed it in great abundance. It was less common on the Mountain 

 Gede, south of Batavia ; on the Mountain Ungarang, south of Samarang, 

 and on the Mountain Ijen, at the farthest extremity 5 but I traced its 

 range through the whole island. 



Most of these mountains and ridges furnish tracts of considerable ex- 

 tent, fitted for the cultivation of wheat and other European grains. Cer- 

 tain extra- tropical fruits are likewise raised with success : peaches and 

 strawberries grow in considerable abundance, and the common culinary 

 vegetables of Europe are cultivated to great extent. To most Euro- 

 peans and Chinese, a residence in these elevated regions is extremely 

 desirable ; and even the natives, who in general dislike its cold atmo- 

 sphere, are attracted by the fertility of the soil, and find it an advan- 

 tage to establish villages and to clear ground for culture. Potatoes, 

 cabbages, and many other culinary vegetables are extensviely raised, as 

 the entire supply of the plains in these articles depends on these elevated 

 districts. Extensive plantations of wheat and other European grains, 

 as well as tobacco, are here found, where rice, the universal product of 

 the plains, refuses to grow. These grounds and plantations are laid 

 out in the deep vegetable mould, where the Teledu holds its range as 

 the most ancient inhabitant of the soil. In its rambles in search of food, 

 this animal frequently enters the plantations, and destroys the roots of 

 young plants; in this manner it causes extensive injury, and on the 

 Tengger Hills particularly, where these plantations are more extensive 

 than in other elevated tracts, its visits are much dreaded by the inhabi- 

 tants : it burrows in the earth with its nose in the same manner as 

 hogs, and in traversing the hills, its nocturnal toils are observed in the 

 morning in small ridges of mould recently turned up. 



The Mydaus forms its dwelling at a slight depth beneath the surface, 



