A translation of the keddah annals. 
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India. The Siamese, to whom Keddah belongs, designate it, as of 
old, Mhang Srai or Chrai, which so far corroborates our author’s 
account. It is pretty obvious that such was the name of the Ked¬ 
dah mountain if not of the country when Mahawangsa is reported to 
have arrived, and I suspect his may not have been the first immigra¬ 
tion from the west, while fresh accessions of Indians may have from 
time to time arrived after the colony became settled. The list of 
wild animals or game here given applies well to the locality at the 
present day, although it is more contracted than it might have 
been ; for close along the base of the mountain Sree or Srai, now 
called by the Malays Gunong Jerei, but by the Siamese K’hau 
Srai, and in the surrounding forests, are to be found also, the ele¬ 
phant, various species of the feline tribe from the leopard cat up 
to the leopard and royal tiger, two kinds of the rhinoceros, the 
largest of which inhabits the plains, and the smallest the mountain, 
as I ascertained while ascending it, the Srigala or small dark 
brown wild dog, two species of the Bovine genus, which I have 
called Bisons, one being a very powerful animal and fierce. I have 
never seen one of these Srigala alive, although I have travelled for 
a month at a time through the deep forests of the Peninsula, but I 
saw a preserved one in the collection of my scientific friend Dr Can¬ 
tor, who has doubtless already described it. There is also the wild 
goat or sheep called Kmbing Gurun or “ wild goat” by the 
Malays. No description that I am aware of has yet been given of 
this animal, so that its precise zoological position has aot been 
ascertained. Its habitat is on the inaccessible peaks and cliffs of 
the mountains, and especially the crags and peaks of the limestone 
formation, and it is a very difficult thing to catch or kill one. 
They are found generally beyond the range of fire-arms, and are 
very wary. I got a couple of horns and part of the skeleton [not 
the head] of one which had fallen from a precipice, and been killed, 
insufficient I apprehend to enable a naturalist to identify the spe¬ 
cies, The horns were about sis or seven inches long, a little curved 
and of a blackish colour. I observed one of these animals far 
above my head standing on the point of the perpendicular limestone 
rock of Khow Wong near the frontier of Patani. It was of a dark 
colour, and appeared shaggy at the distance from which I viewed 
it. But it was too far off for a shot even from a Manton. 
(To be Continued.) 
