74 BORNEO— THE ORANG-UTAN. [chap. iv. 



He now moved very rapidly and very noiselessly for so 

 large an animal, so I told the Dyaks to follow and keep 

 him in sight while I loaded. The jungle was here full of 

 large angular fragments of rock from the mountain above, 

 and thick with hanging and twisted creepers. Eunning, 

 climbing, and creeping among these, we came up with the 

 creature on the top of a high tree near the road, where the 

 Chinamen had discovered him, and were shouting their 

 astonishment with open mouth : " Ya Ya, Tnan ; Orang- 

 utan, Tuan." Seeing that he could not pass here without 

 descending, he turned up again towards the hill, and I got 

 two shots, and following quickly had two more by the 

 time he had again reached the path ; but he was always 

 more or less concealed by foliage, and protected by the 

 large branch on which he was walking. Once while load- 

 ing I had a splendid view of him, moving along a large 

 limb of a tree in a semi-erect posture, and showing him to 

 be an animal of the largest size. At the path he got on 

 to one of the loftiest trees in the forest, and we could see 

 one leg hanging down useless, having been broken by a 

 ball. He now fixed himself in a fork, where he was 

 hidden by thick foliage, and seemed disinclined to move. 

 I was afraid he would remain and die in this position, and 

 as it was nearly evening I could not have got the tree cut 

 down that day. I therefore fired again, and he then 

 moved off, and going up the hill was obliged to get on to 



