;4 ACCOUNT OF THE 



forms the fobjeO: of thefe obfervations. 



I have only to add, that the young male Tip i a mhich is in 

 tbe menager-e at Barackpore, k in- all refpeds the fame, with that 

 ior Farqithar. 



G. J» SiBDONS Ef^. to the Secretary 

 Asiatic Society^ 



1 "have font on board the Ship Claudine, commanded 

 by Captain Welsh, a very rare animal called on this Coaft ^ the 

 lannoh which I beg you to prelent to the Afiatic Society in my 



It refemhles, with extreme clofenefs the Tapir of 'Buffon, 

 It was prefented to me by the Pangeran of Soongye Lamowe^ \^ho 

 informed- me that it was caught in a paddy plantation upon hia 

 lands in the interior. Search was made for it's parents, but no 

 traces of them were difcovered : the people were attra6led by 

 the flirill cry of the animal, which they found at the edge of 

 the paddy ground, clofe to . a thicket, amidft- very long grafs, 

 the Pangeran himfelf is, perhaps, . the oldeft man living in thefe 

 diilrias : He fays that he never faw but one other anims^l of 

 this defcription, which was when he was about ten years oidj 

 and that he has never heard of one having been feen fince^ 

 that which he then faw was of the iize of a fmall cow-. 



The Tannoh eats boiled rice, after it has got cool, gra fs^ 



leaves &c. It is of a very lazy habit, but perfedly gentle, and 



loves to bathe, (remaining a very conliderable time under water) 



and to be rubbed or fcratched, which he folicits hj throwing 



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