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appears i ike wise to be very numerous. Ele- 

 phauts are found in lierds, but in some 

 places only. 1 liad been told tbat bears were 

 not found in tlie Peninsula, but J liave been 

 convinced of the contrary by ray own senses. 

 I am told rhinoceroses are to be met with 

 in the thickest and lowest part of the forest, 

 but 1 have never seen any of them. 1 have 

 seen but few snakes, though the Jakuns 

 assured me that they are very numerous; 

 and not uncommonlv thev meet with a kind 

 tiicy call ular sawah j which appears to be 

 the boa, of which some ore of the size of 

 the bodv of a man, and swallow a hulTalo '. 



The vegetation of the interior of the Pen- 

 insula is one of the most luxuriant that 

 can be seen; trees giOw^ to the greatest 

 size that can be reached. 



* A snake noticed in- the Journal of the Indian Archi^ 

 peiogo , altliough no more Ihon ihree inches in diameter 

 at the thickenl part of iho body, smallowed a pig of 

 more than fifty poumk weigh l. 



