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many times in thickness, and ended in the shape of a club. The 

 other lobe hung- down as far as the knee and ended in the same 

 way. The g-ums were very thick, and she only had teeth at the 

 sound side of the mouth. Her hair was still black, for the most 

 part standing- straig-ht up, and on the growth itself it was rather 

 thinner. After she had been on view for one day, the king- sent 

 her back to her home, and g-ave her a little present. 



16. — I made ag-ain a small excursion to collect seeds and 

 some new specimens for my flora. I found a beautiful Ajuga, 

 with blood-red leaves and beautiful blue blossoms. 



18. — I w^ent to a temple, situated about half a mile from the 

 town. There I found some very beautiful Celosia, some with 

 yellow and others with red blossoms ; I obtained both blossoms 

 and seed thereof. I came across a big- tree, w^hich had big oval 

 leaves, three of them always growing together, but it had no 

 fruits yet. There was a large sugar plantation here. The roots 

 of the sugar canes stood in a kind of watery soil, but the earth 

 had been heaped up round the stem. At their side grew an A nan ? 

 to half the height of a man. 



In a ruined temple I saw some of the minor idols, which 

 were ranged in standing attitude before the chief sitting idols, 

 they were painted black and had gilt faces. I obtained several 

 rare kinds of seeds, and I saw some goldfish being kept in vessels 

 by some Talapoins. 



19. — I obtained a Ceci'ia, the skin was like shagreen and of a 

 dark brown, rusty colour, it was about 1^ feet long. There were 

 some oblong dark spots at its side, which were more conspicuous 

 near the head. The whole body is rather compressed, especially 

 the stomach, which, however, wi-dens considerably near the back 

 extremit3\ The skin of the stomach is so loose that it can 

 swallow^ many larger animals. This class of animals live here in 

 the streams and find their food mostly between the bamboo-poles 

 on w^hich the houses are built ; they are able to swallow a chicken's 

 egg entirely. 



(Also) An A ngvis Sci/tctle ? but it had 194 scales at the stomach, 

 and three scales at the tail. The head and back are black ; the edge 

 of the mouth is white. The stomach has a blue-black colour, with 

 broad w^hite cross stripes, which divide near the tail in the middle 

 of the stomach, and further back they are almost alternate. The 

 short tail is yellow at the lower side, with a few^ black spots. The 



