82 BORNEO— TEE ORANG-UTAN. [chap. iv. 



Dyak house, a mountain with abundance of fruit, and 

 plenty of Orangs and fine birds. As the river was very 

 narrow, and I was obliged to go in a very small' boat with 

 little luggage, I only took with me a Chinese boy as a 

 servant. I carried a cask of medicated arrack to put Mias 

 skins in, and stores and ammunition for a fortnight. 

 After a few miles, the stream became very narrow and 

 winding, and the whole country on each side was flooded. 

 On the banks were abundance of monkeys, — the common 

 Macacus cynomolgus, a black Semnopithecus, and the 

 extraordinary long-nosed monkey (Nasalis larvatus), which 

 is as large as a three-year old child, has a very long tail, 

 and a fleshy nose, longer than that of the biggest-nosed 

 man. The further we went on the narrower and more 

 winding the stream became ; fallen trees sometimes 

 blocked up our passage, and sometimes tangled branches 

 and creepers met completely across it, and had to be 

 cut away before we could get on. It took us two days 

 to reach Semabang, and we hardly saw a bit of dry land 

 all the way. In the latter part of the journey I could 

 touch the bushes on each side for miles ; and we were 

 often delayed by the screw- pines (Pandanus), which grew 

 abundantly in the water, falling across the stream. In 

 other places dense rafts of floating grass completely filled 

 up the channel, making our journey a constant succession 

 of difficulties. 



