LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



"the wild man of Borneo," which that good man, P. 

 T. Barnum, kept alive by exhibiting a fine specimen. 

 Barnum's original "wild-man" lived at Waltham, 

 Massachusetts, and belonged to the Baptist Church. 

 He recently died worth a hundred thousand dollars, 

 which money he left to found a school for young ladies. 

 QThe orang or mias, hides in the swampy jungles, 

 and very rarely comes to the ground. The natives re- 

 gard them as a sort of sacred object, and have a great 

 horror of killing them. Indeed, a person who kills a 

 man-ape, they regard as a murderer, and so when 

 Wallace announced to his attendants that he wanted 

 to secure several specimens of these " wild-men of the 

 woods," they cried, "Alas! he is making a collection, 

 it will be our turn next!" And they fled in terror. 

 Wallace then hired another set of servants and resolved 

 to make no confidants, but just go ahead and find his 

 game J> jt> 



He had hunted for weeks through forest and jungle, 

 but never a glimpse or sight of the man-ape! He had 

 almost given up the search, and concluded with sev- 

 eral English scientists that this orang-utan was a part 

 of that great fabric of pseudo-science invented by im- 

 aginative sailormen, who took most of their inland 

 little journeys around the capstan. And so musing, 

 seated in the doorway of his bamboo house, he looked 

 out upon the forest, and there only a few yards away, 

 swinging from tree to tree was a man-ape. It seemed 

 to him to be about five times as large as a man. 

 He seized his gun and approached, the beast stopped, 

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