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individuals put ashore by the order of the Sultan of Sulu, a little more 

 than a century ago, continually decimated, too, as these elephants would 

 seem to have been and are at this time ; and I doubt it all the more be- 

 cause it appears that herds of wild elephants existed until recently in 

 Sulu ! Why, therefore, should the few tame elephants presented to 

 the Sultan of Sulu be landed in Borneo ? The remnant of the wild 

 race existed in Sulu within the memory of people now living. On 

 this subject, Mr. St. John fortunately helps us with information. In 

 his notice of Sulu, he remarks, " Remembering Forest's statement that 

 elephants were found in his time in the forests which clothed so much 

 of the soil of the island, I asked Dater Daniel about it; Kis answer 

 was, that even within the remembrance of the oldest men then alive, 

 there were still a few r elephants left in the woods, but that, finding they 

 committed so much damage to the plantations, the villagers had com- 

 bined and hunted the beasts till they were all killed : I was pleased 

 to find the old traveller's account confirmed." — Vol. ii. p. 243. . Why 

 should the elephant of Borneo have been introduced by human 

 agency any more than the Rhinoceros sondaicus or the Bos son- 

 daicus, which latter would appear to be remarkably numerous on the 

 vast island ? — E. B. 



Enormous and deformed Horns of Red Deer and Roe. — I have been trying to find 

 out the history of the big head, and have at last succeeded. It appears that it was 

 the head of a stag shot several hundred years ago in Wallachia, whence it was sent 

 down the Danube to Constantinople, and thence found its way to Sheffield for cutlery 

 purposes ; but a Viennese, seeing it in a cutler's store, bought it and brought it back 

 to Vienna for his collection. He died, and it was then sold, with the rest of his col- 

 lection, to a Mr. Exinger, a large game-dealer here, who also deals in deers' horns, 

 skins, &c. It was then exposed for sale in the game market, where Julian Fane 

 bought it for me. This story is told me by Mr. Vynes, a Queen's messenger, whom I 

 met at dinner at the Embassy here, and he says he has known the head for years here 

 in Vienna ; it was celebrated as a wonder in Hungary and Wallachia, and was said to 

 be one of the largest specimens of red-deer horns in the world. He says it has been 

 examined here and found to be real, though much broken and repaired; the skull, 

 however, was adapted to the horns, which were fastened on to it. I can now tell you 

 what I have hitherto been a little in the dark about myself, that since I have been in 

 Germany I have seen heads in old collections (not for sale) not only as large and with 

 as many points, but larger and with more points. The most remarkable collection in 

 Germany, I believe, is that of the King of Saxony, at the Castle of Moritzburg, about 

 five miles from Dresden ; there are there 120 red deers' heads, seventy gigantic ones 

 in one room, and the rest, being deformed and singular specimens, are in another 

 room by themselves. The heads in the large room vary from twenty-four points to 

 fifty, of w?-ich latter number there are two, but they are by no means the largest 



