MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, &C. 
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animal remained in its place of sepulture some hours, sufficient gases 
had been generated to rectify the effects of the crushing and restore 
piggy to her pristine comeliness of shape ; the contrast therefore was 
the more striking, but still it is quite inconceivable, how the animal 
was ever swallowed ; how the head of the pig passed the jaws of the 
snake, would I think puzzle a eonjuror to determine ; and how the 
snake felt I leave to the consideration of some hopeless Dyspeptic* 
So distended were the walls of the abdomen by the unusual meal, that 
the whole pig could be seen plainly through them ; they became dia¬ 
phanous and thin as gold beater’s skin. The vitality of the monster 
equalled his voracity, for, despite the numberless blows of clubs on its 
head, two hours after the pig had been cut out of the abdomen, I saw 
the tail firmly coil itself around a stake. Boa met with poetical 
justice, for, the same evening, he descended into the very little less 
revenous maws of some Chinese, who looked upon the flesh as some¬ 
thing' exceedingly piquant and appetizing, and eagerly they strove 
amongst themselves who should possess the largest share of it. O. 
The Revd. Mr. Keasberrfr has favoured us with the first No. of 
a little monthly Journal in the Malayan language, intended for the 
instruction of children, and entitled “ Taman Piingatauan bagie ka- 
nak kanak. It contains 24 pages, and is got up with great neat¬ 
ness. It is intended not only for the boys at Mr. Keasberry’s school,- 
but for general circulation in the Straits. It is printed in Roman 
characters, which will adapt it to the use of a considerable class who 
can read English, but to whom Malay is more familiar, although 
they cannot read it in the Arabic characters. In our next issue we 
shall notice the contents, and give a few extracts. In the meantime 
those of our readers who have the means of bringing it to the notice 
of the class in question, will* confer a benefit on them by doing so, 
as the want of books in the Malay language adapted for children 
must have hitherto been a great bar to their improvement. The 
gratuitous distribution of a few copies would cost but little, for the 
price of a number is only 25 cents, 
