ECAN KUDU OK HOUSE FISH. 



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*' Yesterduy/' (Friday,) snid my fniiiisriin: 

 Malay infoniiaiit, " I washed tliis hird, (the one 

 tlieu before lis,) and gave liini his ]>hysic." He 

 was so highly pleased at my taking an interest 

 in his Utis^ l3idt fee pjeseiiti^d tm wilfh II p^t<ii 



the ereaiii-cnlonrod dii^ es, wliieh, he observed, 

 " W'oidd speak like a elnek, evrry hour."* The 

 smaller species was tlie one, however, possessed 

 of the preserving qualities against fire and £ood* 

 Be itpc&}f£ted fef m/t making me a peeaat 

 it, mi gave, in my opinion, tlie besi ^ rfeasons 

 that a married man eonhl, vvhichwaa — MBWjf& 

 would not let hmi pm^t v'tth it.^^ 



Ij however^ so pleased my Malay friendj that 

 he r^etfeed I ifchocit to leanre Btfatvia so 

 W&sii ^ h« would otherwise have shown me 

 some more niriosities, and j^iven me plenty of 

 information on Javamsi' thiugs, (probably, I 

 thought^ of a similar stamp to the foregoing, that 

 18, mote^miifiiog tiiaii iaaaljrtictive) . Bte hf oi*gh t 

 me ^ dned ^ecimeu of th« M^n^H/s/^^^ car&- 

 fully wra]}ped in [lajier ; it was named Ecan 

 Kudu, or ]iorse-fish, (Ecan, signifying a fisli, 

 and Kudu, horse,) by the Malays, from its 



* These doves when on board cooed^ or, us tin? Mala^ said^ 

 isj%^w!li^n the b«lbwemiStmsl^ Imtlks ii equuntly emd ijt 

 spoke om of the re^qlat time^fid they did not answer tliepur- 

 pose of a clock I 



