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them in a fort of tlie tree until wlie liatl inade herself 

 a nice resting-place. That, ho^ve^^er, not being high 

 enough, she climbed up nearly to the top of the tree 

 and then broke all the twigs near her, and thus form- 

 ed a second couch. She did not sway to and fro con- 

 tinually, as many monkeys do, but used to sit quietly 

 picking off all the foliage within her reach, and then 

 took up another position and demolished the foliage 

 there in the same manner. It is very singular this 

 animal is found on Siunatra and Borneo, and has 

 never been seen on the Malay Peninsula, which al- 

 most lies between them. 



Februm'i/ 27th. — At 7.30 a. m. started on 

 horseback for Lubu Sikeping. At first the road 

 led through the lowland near Bondyol, and then 

 crossing a rapid stream began to ascend a naiTow 

 winding valley. My little pony took me up the 

 steep places apparently ivith as little exertion as if 

 we were aacendiug a gentle accli\aty. Like all the 

 saddle and carnage horses used in the archipel^o, he 

 was a stallion, it l>eiug considered among all these 

 islands as disgraceful for a man to ride or drive a 

 mare as it would be in our land for a fanner to plough 

 with a yoke of cows. Even geldings are never seen, 

 and, aa would natni'ally be expected, the stallions, 

 unless remarkably well-trained, are veiy vicious, and, 

 worse than all, extremely capricious, springing, or 

 kicking, or halting, inthout any provocation, and 

 without giving their nder the slightest warning ; but, 

 when they are perfectly trained, they are among the 

 finest saddle-horses in the world, they are so fleet and 

 so siu'e-footed. In a short time the nmi'ow valley 



