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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



enough and seemed very tame, it did not grow in the least, and 

 at the end of three months died. 



On the following day a monster male was met with in a deep 

 jungle, and though Wallace repeatedly wounded it, yet so tena- 

 cious of life was the animal that it did not succumb until both 

 legs were broken, one hip bone and the root of the spine com- 

 pletely shattered, and two bullets were flattened in its neck and 

 jaw. This monster measured four feet two inches in height, and 

 the spread of its arms was seven feet three inches. 



About ten days 

 after this, some 

 Dyaks came to 

 tell Wallace that 

 the day before a 

 mias had nearly 

 killed one of their 



companions. A 

 few miles down 

 the river there 

 was aDyak house, 

 and the inhabi- 

 tants saw a large 

 orang feeding on 

 the young shoots 

 of a palm by the 

 river-side. On 

 being alarmed, he retreated toward the jungle which was close 

 by, and a number of men, armed with spears and choppers, ran 

 out to intercept him. The man who was in front tried to run 

 his spear through the animal's body, but the mias seized it in his 

 hands, and in an instant got hold of the man's arm, which he 

 seized in his mouth, making his teeth meet in the flesh above the 

 elbow, which he tore and lacerated in a dreadful manner. Had 

 not the others been close behind him, the man would have been 

 more seriously injured, if not killed, as he was quite powerless, 

 but they soon destroyed the creature with their spears and 



THE BABY MIAS. 



