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steadily during the ten days I spent with Omar. By 

 the time the orang-outangs were ready to travel, 

 we had three gibbons, four baby orang-outangs, one 

 proboscis-monkey, ten black monkeys, eighteen 

 long-tailed monkeys, twenty-two pig-tailed mon- 

 keys, three pythons, which averaged eight feet in 

 length, two sambur deer, one sun-bear, three wild- 

 cats, four civet-cats, four porcupines, one ant-eater 

 and two armadillos. 



We slipped the bars over the open ends of the 

 cages in which the big fellows were to travel, and 

 lashed them securely with rattan ropes. Since the 

 boats at the kampong were too small, I had two 

 large rafts made of bamboo and I placed all the 

 cages on them. 



When everything was ready, we boarded the 

 boats and rafts and started down the river. The 

 people lined the banks, shouting and wishing us a 

 safe journey; others followed us in boats. At each 

 village, the natives swarmed out to see the animals 

 and wish us luck. I can still hear them calling: 

 "Tuan, bila bdlik? Salam-at jaldn! (Sir, when 

 will you come back ? Safe journey ! ) " 



We stopped at Mahommed Munshee's village, 

 and then at Sintang. I found that Dr. Van Erman 

 had gone down to Pontianak. Another swarm of 

 natives met us when we arrived there, and I had 

 to station my men around the rafts to keep them 

 from coming aboard. 



Leaving Ali in charge of the animals, I went 



