subjects of botany, geology, ornithology, entomology, 

 zoology and anthropology, in a way that serves as a 

 regular mine of information and suggestion for natural 

 history workers. 



The book in its original form, I believe, sold for ten 

 pounds — fifty dollars, and was issued to subscribers 

 in parts. It was bought, not only by students, but by 

 a great number of general readers, there being enough 

 adventure mixed up in the science, to spice what might 

 otherwise be rather dry reading. 



For instance, there is a chapter about killing orang- 

 utans that must have served my old friend, Paul du 

 Chaillu, as excellent raw stock in compiling his own 

 recollections. 



Wallace states that the only foe for which the orang 

 really has a hatred is the crocodile. It seems to share 

 with man a shuddering fear of snakes although orangs 

 have no part in making Kentucky famous. But the 

 crocodile is his natural and hereditary enemy. And as 

 if to get even with this ancient foe who occasionally 

 snaps off a young orang in his prime, the orangs will 

 often locate a big crocodile, and jumping on his back 

 beat him with clubs, and when he opens his gigantic 

 mouth, the female orangs will fill the cavity with sticks 

 and stones and keep up the fight until the crocodile 

 succumbs and quits this vale of crocodile tears. 

 The orang is distinct and different from the chimpan- 

 zee or gorilla which is found only in Western Africa. 

 Q In Borneo the "man-ape" is quite numerous. This 

 is the animal that has given rise to all those tales about 



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