goat.  The hinder parts were shaped like those of a bear, the rump sloping round off from the back; the tail was very small, and ended in a point; the legs clumsy; the hair along the ridge of the back rising coarse and strong, almost like bristles; no beard; over the shoulder was a large spreading tuft of greyish hair; the rest of the hair black throughout; the scrotum globular.  Its disposition seemed wild and fierce, and it is said by the natives to be remarkably swift.

Hog, babi:  that breed we call Chinese.

The wild hog, babi utan.

Dog, anjing:  those brought from Europe lose in a few years their distinctive qualities, and degenerate at length into the cur with erect ears, kuyu, vulgarly called the pariah dog.  An instance did not occur of any one going mad during the period of my residence.  Many of them are affected with a kind of gonorrhoea.

(PLATE 11. n.1.  THE ANJING-AYER, Mustela lutra. 
W. Bell delt.  A. Cardon fc.)

(PLATE 13a. n.2.  THE ANJING-AYER. 
Sinensis delt.  A. Cardon fc. 
Published by W. Marsden, 1810.)

Otter, anjing ayer (Mustela lutra).

Cat, kuching:  these in every respect resemble our common domestic cat, excepting that the tails of all are more or less imperfect, with a knob or hardness at the end, as if they had been cut or twisted off.  In some the tail is not more than a few inches in length, whilst in others it is so nearly perfect that the defect can be ascertained only by the touch.

Rat, tikus:  of the grey kind.

Mouse, tikus kechil.

ELEPHANT.

Elephant, gajah:  these huge animals abound in the woods, and from their gregarious habits usually traversing the country in large troops together, prove highly destructive to the plantations of the inhabitants, obliterating the traces of cultivation by merely walking through the grounds; but they are also fond of the produce of their gardens, particularly of plantain-trees and the sugar-cane, which they devour with eagerness.  This indulgence of appetite often proves fatal to them, for the owners, knowing their attachment to these vegetables, have a practice of poisoning some part of the plantation, by splitting the canes and putting yellow arsenic into the clefts which the animal unwarily eats of, and dies.  Not being by nature carnivorous, the elephants are not fierce, and seldom attack a man but when fired at or otherwise provoked.  Excepting a few kept for state by the king of Achin, they are not tamed in any part of the island.

RHINOCEROS.

The rhinoceros, badak, both that with a single horn and the double-horned species, are natives of these woods.  The latter has been particularly described by the late ingenious Mr. John Bell (one of the pupils of Mr. John Hunter) in a paper printed in Volume 83 of the Philosophical Transactions for 1793.  The horn is esteemed an antidote against poison, and on that account formed into drinking cups.  I do not know anything to warrant the stories told of the mutual antipathy and the desperate encounters of these two enormous beasts.