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CURIOUS bees' nests. 
of the face. The height at the shoulder was three feet four 
inches, length from snout to root of tail six feet three inches, 
length of head one foot three inches. Now, as the length of 
a tolerably fine Indian boar is five feet from snout to root of 
tail, and stands a little over two feet six inches, this fellow 
was indeed a monster. 
On the same morning I saw some curious bees' nests 
made by a little bee not larger than a house fly. The nests 
were made of earth, and stuck on the side of a tree, and had 
long tubes sticking out like the neck of a bottle. 
After five months' sojourn in Labuan, I returned to 
Singapore in April, 1 849. 
' A Sf>mes of Trigom'a. 
