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was quite peaceable, not even once attempting to bite, but whined 

 softly when I approached him, and rolled up his big brown eyes 

 appealingly. His petition was not to be refused. I cut the bark 

 that bound his hands and feet, and placed a pile of soft straw in the 

 verandah for him, into the middle of which he immediately crawled 

 and curled himself up. Thus began a great friendship between 

 ape and man. 



As a pet, the larger orang was not exactly a success. Da}' and 

 night he clung to the rafters of the bath-room, as high up as he could 

 get, sullenly refusing all food and repelling my most friendly ad- 

 vances. In the middle of the second night after I got him we were 

 awakened by hearing something strike with a terrific " bang " on 

 the bath-room floor, and, on going in, we found hii» lying where he 

 had fallen, stone dead. 



