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abonnds in rhinoceroses, elepLantSj and deer. If the 

 leeches attack them as they did a dog that followed 

 Tig, they must prove one of the most efficient mean§ 

 of destroying those large animals. It is at least tar- 

 tunate for the elephant and rhinoceros that they are 

 pachyderms. While passing through the places 

 where the jtmgle is mostly composed of bamboos^ 

 we saw several large troops of small, slate-colored 

 monkeys, and^ among the taller trees, troops of an- 

 other species of a light-yeUow color, with long arms 

 and long tails. On the moniing that I left Tanjong 

 Agong, as we passed a tall tree by the roadside, the 

 natives cautioned me to keep quiet, for it was " full 

 of monkeys," and, when we were just under it, 

 they all set up a loud shout, and at once a whole 

 troop sprang out of its high branches like a flock of 

 bii^ds. Some came do^vn twenty-five or thirty feet 

 before they struck on the tops of the small trees be- 

 neath them, and yet each would recover, and go off 

 throxigh the jungle, with the speed of an an*ow, in 

 a moment. 



While nearly all animals have a particular area 

 which they frequent— as the low coast region, the 

 plateaus of these tropical lands, or the higher parts of 

 the mountains — the rhinoceros lives indifferently any- 

 where between the sea-shores and the tops of the high- ' 

 est peaks. This species has two " horns," the first being 

 the longer and more sharply pointed, but the Java 

 species has only one. The natives here know nothing 

 of the fe'equent combats between these animals and 

 elephants, that are so frequently pictured in poj)ular 

 works on natural history. The Resident has, how- 



