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they are not common to the brute creation, are deemed the 
results of tuition. 
The Orang Outang which is the subject of the present 
article, was discovered on the north coast of Sumatra, by a 
ing their prey ; for im consequence o the extreme agility, 
one. When thus limited in his range, the Orang Outang 
was shot, but did not die till he had received five balls and 
the thrust of aspear. One of the first balls probably pene- 
ody, mmediately 
weapon from his antagonist, and shivered it in pieces. This 
was his second, and sl gg exertion ; yet he lived some 
time afterwards, and drank, it is stated, large quantities of 
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