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but in uttering the low notes he holds his mouth wide open, 
and at the same time the great throat bag, or laryngeal sac, 
becomes distended. 
According to the Dyaks, the only animal the Orang mea- 
sures his strength with is the crocodile, who occasionally 
seizes him on his visits to the water side. But they say that 
the Orang is more than a match for his enemy, and beats him 
to death, or rips up his throat by pulling the jaws asunder ! 
Much of what has been here stated was probably derived 
by Dr. Miiller from the reports of his Dyak hunters; but 
a large male, four feet high, lived in captivity, under his obser- 
vation, for a month, and receives a very bad character. 
** He was a very wild beast,” says Miller, “of prodigious 
strength, and false and wicked to the last degree. If any one 
approached he rose up slowly with a low growl, fixed his eyes 
in the direction in which he meant to make his attack, slowly 
passed his hand between the bars of his cage, and then extend- 
ing his long arm, gave a sudden grip—usually at the face.” 
He never tried to bite (though Orangs will bite one another), 
his great weapons of offence and defence being his hands. 
His intelligence was very great ; and Miller remarks, that 
though the faculties of the Orang have been estimated too 
highly, yet Cuvier, had he seen this specimen, would not have 
considered its intelligence to be only a little higher than that 
of the dog. 
His hearing was very acute, but the sense of vision seemed 
to be less perfect. The under lip was the great organ of touch, 
and played a very important part in drinking, being thrust 
out like a trough, so as either to catch the falling rain, or to 
receive the contents of the half cocoa-nut shell full of water 
with which the Orang was supplied, and which, in drinking, he 
poured into the trough thus formed. 
In Borneo the Orang-Utan of the Malays goes by the name 
of “ Mias” among the Dyaks, who distinguish several kinds 
as Mias Pappan, or Zimo, Mias Kassu, and Mias Rambi. 
