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in the lower and darker part, or in the leafy top of a small tree, 
among which he prefers Nibong Palms, Pandani, or one of 
those parasitic Orchids which give the primeval forests of 
Borneo so characteristic and striking an appearance. But 
wherever he determines to sleep, there he prepares himself a 
sort of nest: little boughs and leaves are drawn together 
round the selected spot, and bent crosswise over one another ; 
while to make the bed soft, great leaves of Ferns, of Orchids, 
of Pandanus fascicularis, Nipa fruticans, &c., are laid over 
them. Those which Miller saw, many of them being very 
fresh, were situated at a height of ten to twenty-five feet 
above the ground, and had a circumference, on the average, 
of two or three feet. Some were packed many inches thick 
with Pandanus leaves; others were remarkable only for the 
cracked twigs, which, united in a common centre, formed a 
regular platform. “The rude hut,’ says Sir James Brooke, 
“‘which they are stated to build in the trees, would be more 
properly called a seat or nest, for it has no roof or cover of 
any sort. The facility with which they form this nest is 
curious, and I had an opportunity of seeing a wounded 
female weave the branches together and seat herself, within a 
minute.” 
According to the Dyaks the Orang rarely leaves his bed 
before the sun is well above the horizon and has dissipated 
the mists. He gets up about nine, and goes to bed again 
about five; but sometimes not till late in the twilight. He 
lies sometimes on his back; or, by way of change, turns on 
one side or the other, drawing his limbs up to his body, and 
resting his head on his hand. When the night is cold, windy, 
or rainy, he usually covers his body with aheap of Pandanus, 
Nipa, or Fern leaves, like those of which his bed is made, and 
he is especially careful to wrap up his head in them. It is 
this habit of covering himself up which has probably led to 
the fable that the Orang builds huts in the trees. 
Although the Orang resides mostly amid the boughs of great 
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