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half the length of the cabin, I spoke quietly, without 

 frightening him. The instant he found 1 saw him, he 

 walked back again, and deposited the soap nearly in the 

 same place from whence he had taken it. There was 



FIG. 9. An adult male Orang-Utan, after Muller and Schlegel. 



