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my men to make a close fence about five feet liigh round 

 the rest of the body, wbicli would soon be devoured by 

 maggots, small lizards, and ants, leaving me the skeleton, 

 Tiiero was a great gash in liis face, wWnAi had cut deep 

 into the bone, but the skull was a very line one, aud the 

 teeth remark ul>ly large and x>erfect. 



On June 18th I had another great success^ and obtained 

 a fine adult male. A Chinaman told me be had seen him 

 feeding by the side of the path to the river, and I found 

 him at the same place as the first individual I had shot. 

 He was feeding on an oval green fruit having a fine red 

 arillus, like the mace which surrounds the. nutmeg, and 

 which alone he seemed to eat, biting off the thick outer 

 rind and dropping it in a continual shower. I had found 

 the same tniit in the stomach of some others wliich I had 

 killed. Two shots caused this animal to loose bis hold, 

 but be hung for a considerable time by one hand, and 

 then fell tlat on his face and was half buried in the 

 swamp. For several minutes he lay groaning and panting, 

 while we stood close round, expecting every breath to be 

 his last. Suddcidy, however, by a violent effort he raised 

 himself up, causing us all to step back a yard or two» 

 when, standing nearly erect, he caught hold of a small tree, 

 and began to ascend it. Another shot through the back 

 caused jnm to fall down dead. A llatteiiod bullet was 

 found in his tongue, having entered the lower paii; of the 

 abdomen and completely ti-aversed the l>ody, fmcturing the 

 first cervical vertebra. Yet it was after this fearful wound 

 thfi| be had risen, and begun climbing with considerable 

 facuity. This also was a fuU-giwvn male of almost exactly 

 the same (limensions a.s the other two 1 had measured. 



On June 2 1st I shot another adult female, which was 

 eating fruit in a low tree, and was the only one which I 

 ever killed by a single ball. 



On Jmie 24th I was called by a Chinaman to shoot a 

 ^lias, which, he said, was on a tree close by his house, at 

 the coal-mines. Arriving at the place, we bad some diffi- 

 culty in finding the auimal, as he had gone off into the 

 jungle, which was very rocky and dillicult to tmverse. 

 At last we found him up a very high tree, and could see 

 that he wa^ a male of the largest size. As soon as I bad 



