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pupa-cases of flies and other insects, with thousands of two 

 or three species of small necrophagous heetles. The skull 

 had heen much shattered by balls, but the skeleton was 

 perfect, except one small wrist-bone, which had probably 

 dropped out and been carried away by a lizard. 



Three days after I had shot this one and lost it, Charles 

 found three small Orangs feeding together. We had a 

 long chase after them, and had a good opportunity of 

 seeing how they make their way from tree to tree, by 

 always choosing those linibs whose branches are inter- 

 mingled with those of some other tree, and then grasping- 

 several of the small twigs together before they venture 

 to swing themselves across. Yet they do this so quickly 

 and certainly, that they make way among the trees at the 

 rate of full five or six miles an hour, as we had continually 

 to run to keep up with them. One of these we shot and 

 killed, but it remained high up in the fork of a tree ; and, 

 as young animals are of comparatively little interest, I did 

 not have the tree cut down to get it. 



At this time I had the misfortune to slip among some 

 fallen trees, and hurt my ankle, and, not being careful 

 enough at first, it became a severe inflamed ulcer, which 

 would not heal, and kept me a prisoner in the house the 

 whole of July and part of August. When I could get out 

 again, I determined to take a trip up a branch of the Simun- 

 jon River to Semabang, where there was said to be a large 



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