killed, so I offered them a reward to bring it up to our landing-
place immediately, which they promised to do. They did not come,
however, until the next day, and then decomposition had
commenced, and great patches of the hair came off, so that it was
useless to skin it. This I regretted much, as it was a very fine
full-grown male. I cut off the head and took it home to clean,
while I got my men to make a closed fence about five feet high
around the rest of the body, which would soon be devoured by
maggots, small lizards, and ants, leaving me the skeleton. There
was a great gash in his face, which had cut deep into the bone,
but the skull was a very fine one, and the teeth were remarkably
large and perfect.

On June 18th I had another great success, and obtained a fine
adult male. A Chinaman told me be had seen him feeding by the
side of the path to the river, and I found him at the same place
as the first individual I had shot. He was feeding on an oval
green fruit having a fine red arillus, like the mace which
surrounds the nutmeg, and which alone he seemed to eat, biting
off the thick outer rind and dropping it in a continual shower. I
had found the same fruit in the stomach of some others which I
had killed. Two shots caused this animal to loose his hold, but
he hung for a considerable time by one hand, and then fell flat
on his face and was half buried in the swamp. For several minutes
he lay groaning and panting, while we stood close around,
expecting every breath to be his last. Suddenly, however, by a
violent effort he raised himself up, causing us all to step back
a yard or two, when, standing nearly erect, he caught hold of a
small tree, and began to ascend it. Another shot through the back
caused him to fall down dead. A flattened bullet was found in his