CHAPTER VT. 



I MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THE ORANG-OUTANG. 



T was not till some months after the incidents 

 mentioned in the last chapter that I found 

 an opportunity to study another species of the 

 animal most nearly resembling man, — the orang-outang. 



This monkey is found in Borneo, and thither Thursday 

 — now grown more civilized and more indispensable — 

 and I turned our faces. We took passage on a craft 

 going out with Chinese laborers, and a hard voyage we 

 had of it, with head winds and a heavy sea. But at last, 

 ten days late, we arrived at Saraouak, and immediately 

 inquired of the native hunters where we could best find 

 the game for which we were in search. They advised 

 the Sadong River, running to the east from Saraouak, 

 and bordered its entire length with dense forests. I hired 

 a Dyak porter to carry our provisions, and we set out. 

 Two days later we were floating on the river, and my 

 ardent desire was about to be gratified. 



Orang-outang is a word meaning in Borneo '' Man-of- 

 the-Forest," and is applied to what is now a species of 

 small stature, rarely five feet high, but of stalwart build, 



