Or it could be a rabbit.  Or it could be a type of deer mentioned in the article.  Or…I'm guessing it could be a kangaroo which was brought from Australia to some place in SE Asia.  I know next to nothing about Australian history, so I was unaware that Europeans did not know about it until the Seventeenth Century.  But, assuming others closer to Australia had visited the continent, they would have probably brought back Australian “things” to their home countries.