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VOYAGE OF THE POTOMAC. 
[February, 
names : — horse, coodo; small, well made, and hardy; cow, sappee ; 
small breed ; sheep, beeree-beeree ; small, probably introduced 
from Bengal ; goat, cambing ; goat of the woods, cambing^ootan ; 
resembling the gazelle ; hog, habee ; Chinese breed ; dog, angin; 
cbX, cochin ; rat, teecoose ; elephant, gaja ; rhinoceros, buddah ; 
hippopotamus, coodoo-ayer ; tiger, reemow, or macliang ; very 
ferocious and destructive to human life ; bear, broorong (Latin, 
bruin) ; otter, angin-ayer ; sloth, telleggo ; porcupine, landa ; 
armadillo, tangeeling ; very rare, and much esteemed by the 
natives ; deer, rooso-keejang ; many species, some of which are 
very large; monkey, /reooma ; prodigious variety , squirrel, toopye; 
bat, boorong-tecoose, &c. &c. 
The buffalo, though obstinate, dull, and capricious, is still sub- 
dued to the yoke, and performs with great patience all the do- 
mestic labours of the Sumatrans, and constitutes a great part of 
their food. There are two species, the black and the white, and 
both are domesticated. The forests abound with elephants, which 
sometimes commit great depredations on the plantations of the 
natives. - 
The birds are very numerous, and of great variety in their 
plumage. We cannot even attempt to name even the few that 
have been described. It is here that the famous Sumatran, or 
Argos pheasant is found ; a specimen of which, we presume, is 
not contained in any of our public collections. The natives call 
it the coo-oiv. It is a bird of uncommon beauty ; perhaps the 
most delicately rich, without any gaudiness, of all the feathered 
tribe. Like the quail of our own country, it cannot be domesti- 
cated, and seldom lives more than a month when deprived of its 
liberty. It is said to have a great antipathy to light ; but when 
kept in a moderate degree of darkness, it is more cheerful, and 
then sometimes makes use of the notes from which its name is 
derived, coo-ow, coo-ow, in a plaintive style, and not harsh like 
the ■ peacockV^ There are many species of the stork, some of 
which are very large ; and parrots are without number. Doves 
are also numerous, and the domestic fowl is found in great per- 
fection, far surpassing in size and flavour their puny descendants 
in any other part of the world. 
■Of all the productions of the island, regarded as articles 
of commerce, their pepper has held, and deservedly too, the 
