On striking it a number of fish immediately came out of the masses of weed with which the pond abounds, and followed us along the margin expecting food.
At the same time some deer came out of as adjacent wood, which, from being seldom shot at and regularly fed, are almost tame.

The jungle and woods which surrounded the park appearing to abound in birds, I went to shoot a few, and was rewarded by getting several specimens of the fine new kingfisher, Halcyon fulgidus, and the curious and handsome ground thrush, Zoothera andromeda.

The former belies its name by not frequenting water or feeding on fish.

It lives constantly in low damp thickets picking up ground insects, centipedes, and small mollusca.
Altogether I was much pleased with my visit to this place, and it gave me a higher opinion than I had before entertained of the taste of these people, although the style of the buildings and of the sculpture is very much inferior to those of the magnificent ruins in Java.
I must now say a few words about the character, manners, and customs of these interesting people.
The aborigines of Lombock are termed Sassaks.

They are a Malay race hardly differing in appearance from the people of Malacca or Borneo.
They are Mahometans and form the bulk of the population.