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As we seized the arms and pulled the massive head up to the 

 surface of the water, the monster gave a great gasp, and looked re- 

 proachfully at us out of his haK-closed eyes. I can never forget 

 the strange and even awful sensation with which I regarded the 

 face of the dying animal. There was nothing in it in the least 

 suggestive of anything human, but I felt as if I had shot some 

 grim and terrible gnome or river-god, a sat}T indeed ! 



"Ahdo ! Ahdo ! " exclaimed Lamudin in Malay, "the Rajah of 

 all the mias ! " 



We were all filled with wonder at the huge beast before us. 

 He was a perfect giant in size, larger than any the natives had ever 

 seen before, and the largest ever shot by a naturahst. His head, 

 body, and limbs were simply immense, and his weight could not 

 have been much, if any, less than one hundred and ninety pounds. 



To give an idea of his size and proportions, I append his meas- 

 urements, together with those taken of a man of average weight 

 and statvure. 



Height, head to heel 



Spread of arms, between finger-tips 

 Length of arm, armpit to finger-tips 



Length of hand 



Length of foot 



Breadth of face 



Length of face 



Circumference of head, behind ears 



Circumference of neck 



Circumference of chest 



Circumference of waist 



Circumference of arm 



Circumference of forearm 



Circumference of thigh 



Circumference of calf 



Weight (estimated) 



In another chapter will be found a somewhat extended descrip- 

 tion of both species of the orang, and therefore I will not offer here 

 any information concerning the external characteristics of the ani- 

 mal referred to above. He has since found a place, with several of 

 his nearest relatives, in a huge glass case in the National Museum 

 at Washington, where he is engaged in a sanguinary "Fight in the 



