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and black ; devours the hearts of the coconut trees. Otter : angin-ayer.
Sloth. Stinkard : teleggo. Porcupine : landa. Armadillo : tangeeling.
It perfectly refembles the animal of America. Very rare, and made
great account of by the natives; the fcales being fuppofed medicinal.
Deer : rorfo: kecjang. There are variety of the deer fpecies; of which
fome are very large. Wild hog : babee ootang. Hog deer : babee roofo.
Small and delicate animal; one of thofe which produce the bezoar.
Monkey : moonia : brco : feermang. Prodigious variety of this genus.
Pole cat : moofang. Tiger cat: ccchin-reemow. Civet cat: The natives
take the civet from the vagina of thefe, as they require it for ufe.
Squirrel : toopye. Small, dark fpecies. Bat : locrong-tcecoofc. Many
of considerable Size, which pafs in large flocks from one country to another;
hanging at times, by hundreds, on trees. Some perfectly refemble
foxes, in fhape and color; but thefe cannot fly far»
The buffaloe {carbow), which constitutes a principal part of the food
of the Sumatrans, is the only animal employed in their domeftic labors..
The inland people, where the country is tolerably clear, avail themfelve
of their Strength, to draw timber felled in the woods-; the Malays,
and other people on the coaft, train them to the draft, and fometimes to
the plough. Though apparently of a dull, obftinate, capricious nature,.,
the carbow acquires by habit a furprizing docility, and is taught to lift
the fhafts of the cart with its horns, and place the yoke, which is fixed
to thofe, acrofs its neck ; needing no further harnefs than a breafl band,,
and a String which is made to pafs through the cartilage of the noftrils.
They are alfo, for the fervice of the Europeans, trained to carry burthens
fufpended from each fide of a pack faddle, in roads or paths where
the ufe of carriages is impracticable. It is extremely flow, but fteady
in its work. The labor «performs, falls Short of what might be expected
from its fize, and appatent Strength, the leaft extraordinary fatigue
particularly during the heat of the day, being fufficient to put a period
to its life, which is at all rimes precarious. The owners frequently experience
the lofs of large herds, in a Short fpace of time, by an epidemic
diftemper, called loondoo /g, that frizes them Suddenly, Swells their bodies,