Library of Cryptozoology

Chenla [Cambodia] produces a fish named fu-hu , which resembles the mud-eel, but with a bill shaped like the parrot's, and eight legs.

The Hippopotamus, also exclusively consigned to Africa, has been met with in the portion of jungle which extends into the Bhil country ... I have been credibly informed of this, by several who witnessed the animals at a distance, and afterwards examined their foot-marks (their surmises being corroborated by the natives of the country.) ... A snake, which by the testimony (exaggerated doubtless) of the natives, must equal in dimensions the pythons of antiquity, inhabits the low marshy recesses of the jungle ... and lastly, from a casual glance I once caught of an animal, in the thick and high woods bordering the Gurum nala, near the valley of the Subonrika, it would be the corroboration of an anxious surmise, were after researchers to establish the fact, that the Orang Otang is an inhabitant of these forests.

The Deputy Commissioner, Salween District (Mr. B. L. D. [Bertram Langford Denis] Rae) reported that he had heard rumours of a pygmy rhinoceros in the north of the Salween District and sent the writer a tush stated to have been obtained from this animal some years ago. The tush somewhat resembled a very large wild boar tush but was triangular in shape at the base. The Bombay Natural History Society was unable to identify the tush which was eventually sent to the Royal College of Surgeons, London, where Sir Frank Colver expressed the opinion that the tush was the left lower incisor of a rhinoceros. The Karens of the Salweed have a separate name "Ta Kheikh" for this animal and the following description has been obtained: "about the size of a large wild boar, and resembling an elephant in colour with scanty bristles on the hide which is thick and similar to that of an elephant. Head resembles that of a pig and carries no horn. Large tushes protrude upwards on either side of ...