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  • In the weeks that followed they moved slowly northwards up the coast, through all the many fishing villages, Ular and Chendar and Kalong and Penunjok and Kemasik and many others.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • In size they range from the Great Kalong, the largest of all bats, which measures fourteen inches long, and has a wing expansion of upwards of four feet, to the dwarf long-tongued fruit bat, which is only from two and a half to three inches in length, with an expanse of wing of from eight to ten inches.

    Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various

  • At Lundu we bought eight pigs, which arrived to-day in charge of Kalong, the young

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • On asking Kalong, the eldest son of Sejugah (a young man of twenty years of age, active, clever, and intelligent), whether he would succeed his father, he replied, he feared he was not _rich _ enough; but two or three of the tribe, who were present, asserted that he would be made chief.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • In the weeks that followed they moved slowly northwards up the coast, through all the many fishing villages, Ular and Chendar and Kalong and Penunjok and Kemasik and many others.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • From this peculiarity of their food they are commonly known as Fruit Bats, while the larger species, such as the Indian Fruit Bat and the Kalong of the Eastern Archipelago, which are respectively eleven and fourteen inches in length, are sometimes called Flying Foxes, in allusion to the prevalence of a reddish tint in their fur, and their more or less lengthened and dog-like muzzles.

    A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

  • Kalong and Ned sprang on shore, Blyth and I fallowing.

    The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Kalong and Ned at once entered into conversation with them, as they seemed perfectly to understand each other.

    The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Kalong and Ned, the first mate and I going in one and Mr Blyth and the boatswain in the other.

    The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • This matter, with which all parties were pleased, being settled, we returned to the "Lily," and sail was made for the part of the coast where Kalong informed us we should find the mouth of the river.

    The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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