Sporting Notes in the Far East. 201 



Tiger and leopard there are none, though the former is very com- 

 mon on the neighbouring Islands of Java and Sumatra, and is very 

 fond of the water (not generally a feline characteristic), and it has 

 been known to swim great distances from Island to Island, in the 

 closely packed Archipelagoes of Polynesia. To the South side of 

 this Island Continent is found a small clouded tiger, and also the 

 tapir which they call indigenous. Bears are not common, seldom 

 run much larger than a Southdown sheep, and are very harmless 

 fruit-eating specimens : noticeable for their long black hair and 

 tremendous claws, with which they can climb as well almost, as 

 their fruit-robbing companions the Orang-outang (i.e. old man of the 

 woods). The Babi-rusa (pig-deer) with its curved ornamental tusks, 

 (like the wart-hog of Africa), is also found only in the South, 

 if there ? And this I think concludes the list. 



The elephant is located chiefly in the N. E. Promontory, about 

 the Kinabatangan River and Quarmoti ; we saw their tracks when 

 we landed at Tanjong-Unsang, and again on the banks of a small 

 river running into Siboku Bay, the British and Dutch Boundary. 

 Originally descended from tame Asiatics, and imported for some 

 old Sultan by perhaps an early East India Company. 



A native armed with a Snider had killed four near Dewhurst 

 Bay, but they generally follow and spear one animal if possible in 

 the stomach, camping out, and taking up its tracks for days at a 

 time : eventually the beast succumbs from loss of blood. 



