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and dragged liim close up to the shore without further resistance 

 on his part, whereupon I fired a bullet iuto his neck from the side 

 which cut his spinal marrow so neatly that the vertebra was but 

 very shghtly injured. Ha was the very crocodile we wanted, and 

 his death occasioned no sorrow. He measured exactly twelve feet 

 in length, and his weight was four hundred and fifteen pounds. 

 He was so old, so dingy, dirty, and ugly every way that I concluded 

 to take his skeleton instead of his skin, and spent a day in rough- 

 ing it out neatly. 



Encouraged by this venture, and a satisfactory offer of hai-d 

 cash, my Chinaman caught for me (on his own hook) two other fine 

 crocodiles, one being eleven feet in length and the other nine, both 

 of which were skinned. I got altogether ten crocodiles out of the 

 Sangei Bulu, which yielded four skins, four skeletons, and one 

 skull. 



I was greatly surprised one morning at seeing two crocodiles 

 swimming out in the open sea, dii'ectly opposite Jerom, fully a mile 

 from the shore, and three miles from the mouth of the Sungei 

 Bulu. It was a calm, clear day, and I watched them for half an 

 hour with the glass as the}' floated at the surface of the water, or 

 swam slowly about with their entire length visible the most of the 

 time. One was very large, probably twelve feet in length, and the 

 other was apparently eight feet long. At length they disapj^eared 

 and we saw them no more. It is not unusual for crocodiles to live 

 in salt water, but I never before saw one out in the open sea. 



The mud flats at the mouth of the Sungei Bulu were excellent 

 collecting gi'ound, both when under water and out. Water birds 

 were really numei'ous when the conditions were favorable for their 

 appearance. Some came to fish in the shallow water and others to 

 pick up a living on the flats when the tide was out. I saw several 

 pelicans {Pelecanus rufeacens ?) perching on some dead trees near 

 the shore, small white egrets {Herodias garzetta) and a solitary booby 

 (Sala piscator). On a Uttle islet of igneous rock opposite Jerom I 

 saw stone plovers {Esacus recurvirostru), two species of tern {Sterna 

 cmpiaf and Sternula minutaf), two of ibis, snipes, sand pipers, etc. 

 At low tide many small shrimps were left stranded on the mud, and 

 I often saw troops of small gray monkeys, called krahs {Macacus 

 cynomolgus), wading about in the mud among the mangroves, 

 picking them up. At such times it was easy to shoot them, but 

 difficult to get them afterward. 



Once we discovered a fine, large kabra goya or iguana {Hydro- 



