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Rh this carious tribe we could easily discern carrying their young, whose tiny arms and legs were tightly clasping round their careful parents. The Lotong, which seem to be the Anaks of the three tribes, being larger and longer than the others, are of a jet black colour, and have very long tails, apparently possessed of great power and strength, for they often made use of them as a sort of hook or lasso by which to hang from one branch while busily occupied in eating the fruit from another.

Covies of small wild ducks, called Bebeck, very much resembling our teal, swam in companies on the water. On our first appearance they allowed us to come within gunshot, but the noise of our oars, joined to the sound of our voices, soon made them wary and shy.

The Pncho is a large bird with beautiful jet black plumage, richly streaked with feathers tipped with gold, and darts through the air with the