50 TPIE MAN-LIKE APES. i 



times on his back; or, by way of change, turns on 

 one side or the other, drawing his limbs up to his 

 body, and resting his head on his hand. When 

 the night is cold, windy, or rainy, he usually covers 

 his body with a heap of Pandanus, Nipa, or Fern 

 leaves, like those of which his bed is made, and 

 he is especially careful to wrap up his head in 

 them. It is this habit of covering himself up 

 which has probably led to the fable that the Orang 

 builds huts in the trees. 



Although the Orang resides mostly amid the 

 boughs of great trees, during the daytime, he is 

 very rarely seen squatting on a thick branch, as 

 other apes, and particularly the Gibbons, do. Tbe 

 Orang, on the contrary, confines himself to the 

 slender leafy branches, so that he is seen right at 

 the top of the trees, a mode of life which is closely 

 related to the constitution of his hinder limbs, 

 and especially to that of his seat. For this is pro- 

 vided with no callosities, such as are possessed 

 by many of the lower apes, and even by the Gib- 

 bons; and those bones of the pelvis, which are 

 termed the ischia, and which form the solid frame- 

 work of the surface on which the body rests in 

 the sitting posture, are not expanded like those 

 of the apes which possess callosities, but are more 

 like those of man. 



An Orang climbs so slowly and cautiously,* as, 



* " They are the sloAvest find least aotive of all tbe 

 monkey tribe, and their motions are surprisingly awk- 



