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CHAPTER VIII. 



Description of an Ungka ape — His habits— Anecdotes of 

 him — His death — Dissection. 



Objects of natural history are frequently brought 

 in a great variety by the proas from the different 

 islands of the Eastern Archipelago. Prepared 

 birds of paradise, and living Loris, pink cocka- 

 toos, and occasionally the magnificent, Crowned 

 or Dampier's pigeons, as well as Rhinoceros 

 birds, may be often purchased. An orang-utan 

 was lately brought from Borneo to Singapore, by 

 a commander of a vessel, who sold it for seventy- 

 five dollars. 



During a visit to Singapore, in 1830, I pro- 

 cured, through the kindness of E. Boustead, 

 Esq., a male specimen of the Ungka ape, {Hylo- 

 hates syndactyla.) The animal had been re- 



