STILL IN BORNEO. 



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" Simply that they have been invented to explain a 

 feeling of indebtedness to the apes that owes its origin 

 to their having given warning by their cries of an 



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MACAQUE APES. 



approaching tidal wave and flood, and tliereb}- saving 

 whole communities, who heeded them and fled to the 

 hill-tops." 



