DOINGS IN THE ORANG-UTAN COUNTRY. 371 



watched them daily to see that they cured properly. The necessity 

 for this constant care of them kept me at Simujau several days, 

 during which time the natives hunted diligently, and brought me 

 many fine specimens both dead and alive. This is the list of one 

 day's gatherings, exclusive of insects : 



2 Spiny turtles { Oeoemyda spinosa). 

 1 Box turtle {Emys Thurgii). 



1 Hornbill head {Buceros rhinoceros). 

 1 Orang-utan skull {Simia Wurmbii). 



3 Java deer, alive {Tragulus). 



3 Thread fish (Polynemus). 



4 Long-armed prawns {Pceneus). 

 1 Python, seven feet long. 



1 Gibbon, " wah-wah," alive {Rylobatea concolor). 



A. few days after our great orang-utan day, a Dyak brought in 

 another specimen, which in some respects was a x'emarkable one. 

 It was a male mias chappin, with cheek callosities ten inches across, 

 and it was evidently a dwarf, though of adult age. Its height was 

 only three feet ten and one-fourth inches, and extent of arms six 

 feet nine inches. The hair on his arms and legs was extremely 

 long, that on his shoulders measuring twelve to foui'teen inches in 

 length, which was the longest I have ever seen in an orang. 



He bore the scars of many a hard-fought battle. A piece had 

 been bitten out of his upper lip, and the lower lip also had been 

 bitten through ; both middle fingers were off at the second joint, 

 lea\'ing mere stumps ; the third right toe had disappeared from the 

 same cause ; the fourth left toe and both the great toes had been 

 bitten off at the end ; one finger was quite stiff and misshapen from 

 a bite, and, to crown all, he was actually hump -backed, caused, as 

 I found on dissecting, by some violent injury, possibly a fall. He 

 had evidently been a regular prize-fighter in his day, a first-class 

 desperado. One of his canine teeth had entirel}' disappeared, shat- 

 tered in some bloody fracas, perhaps. I warrant his enemies had 

 good cause to remember him, for he was in prime fighting condition. 

 But, alas ! for him, his fighting days Jtre over, and he now peacefidly 

 sits on the branch of a tree in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, quietly eating a wax durian. 



On the last day of August we made ready for another trip up 

 the Simujan to Padang Lake. The boats were ready at two o'clock, 

 but the tide was still at the ebb, a strong current was setting down 

 the river, and we waited for the flow. Moreover, a great bore waa 



