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orang could cling round it and always find some- 

 thing hairy to which it held fast with great per- 

 sistency. Wallace now hoped that he had made 

 the little orphan happy, and so it was for a while, 

 until it remembered its lost mother and tried to 

 suck. It raised itself so as to be quite close to the 

 hide, and hunted about for promising places ; but 

 when its mouth was only filled with wool and hair 

 it was much displeased, cried vehemently, and gave 

 up the attempt after two or three endeavours. On 

 one occasion it got some wool into its throat, and 

 Wallace was afraid it must be choked ; but after a 

 good deal of cough it threw it up, and he destroyed 

 the mock mother and relinquished the last attempt 

 to give the little creature some occupation. 



At the end of a week Wallace began to feed the 

 ape with a spoon. He mixed soaked biscuit with 

 egg and sugar, and sometimes with sweet potatoes. 

 It took this food readily, and made droll grimaces 

 in order to express its satisfaction or displeasure 

 with what was offered. The little being licked its 

 lips, drew in its cheeks, and screwed up its eyes with 

 an expression of extreme content when it had a 

 mouthful of anything it particularly liked. On the 

 other hand, when the food was not sufSciently sweet 

 and savoury, the orang turned it about in its mouth 

 for a moment, as if to taste it thoroughly, and then 

 spat it out. If the same food was presented again, it 

 screamed violently and threw its arms about like a 

 passionate child. 



Three weeks after Wallace obtained the young 

 orang, a macaca {Macacus ajnomolgus), likewise 



