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The skin was almost entire, inclosing the skeleton, and inside 

 were millions of the pupa-cases of flies and other insects, with 

 thousands of tAvo or three species of small necrophagous 

 beetles. The skull had been much shattered by balls, but 

 the skeleton was perfect, except one small wrist-bone, which 

 had probably dropped out and been carried away by a lizard. 



Three days after I had shot this one and lost it, Charles 

 found three small orangs feeding together. We had a long 

 chase after them, and had a good opportunity of seeing how 

 they make their way from tree to tree, by always choosing 

 those limbs whose branches are intermingled with those of 

 some other tree, and then grasping several of the small twigs 

 together before they venture to swing themselves across. 

 Yet they do this so quickly and certainly that they make way 

 among the trees at the rate of full five or six miles an hour, 

 as we had continvially to run to kee]) ujd with them. One of 

 these we shot and killed, but it remained high up in the fork 

 of a tree ; and, as young animals are of comparatively little 

 interest, I did not have the tree cut down to get it. 



At this time I had the misfortune to slip among some fall- 

 en trees and hurt my ankle, and, not being careful enough at 

 first, it became a severe, inflamed ulcer, which would not heal, 

 and kept me a prisoner in the house the whole of July and part 

 of August. When I could get out again, I determined to take 

 a trip up a branch of the Simunjon River to Semabang, where 

 there was said to be a large Dyak house, a mountain with 

 abundance of fruit, and plenty of orangs and fine birds. As 

 the river was very narrow, and I was obliged to go in a 

 very small boat with a little luggage, I only took with me a 

 Chinese boy as a servant. I carried a cask of medicated ar- 

 rack to put mias skins in, and stores and ammunition for a 

 fortnight. After a few miles, the stream became very nar- 

 row and winding, and the whole country on each side was 

 flooded. On the banks were abundance of monkeys — the 

 common Macacus cynomolgus, a black Semnopithecus,and the 

 extraordinary long-nosed monkey (I^asalis larvatus), which 

 is as large as a three-year-old child, has a very long tail and 

 a fleshy nose, longer than that of the biggest-nosed man. 

 The further we went on, the narrower and more winding the 

 stream became ; fallen trees sometimes blocked up our j^as- 



