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or the face, and was about one-tenth smaller in all its 

 dimensions than the other adult males. The upper in- 

 cisors, however, appeared to be broader than in the larger 

 species, a character distinguishing the Simia morio of 

 Professor Owen, which he had described from the cranium 

 of a female specimen. As it was too far to carry the 

 animal home, I set to work and skinned the body on 

 the spot, leaving the head hands and feet attached, to 

 be finished at home. This specimen is now in the British 

 Museum. 



At the end of a week, finding no more Orangs, I re- 

 turned home ; and, taking in a few fresh stores, and this 

 time accompanied by Charles, went up another branch of 

 the river, very similar in character, to a place called Men- 

 yille, where there were several small Dyak houses and one 

 large one. Here the landing-place was a bridge of rickety 

 poles, over a considerable distance of water ; and I thought 

 it safer to leave my cask of arrack securely placed in the 

 fork of a tree. To prevent the natives from drinking it, I 

 let several of them see me put in a number of snakes and 

 lizards ; but I rather think this did not prevent them from 

 tasting it. We were accommodated here in the verandah 

 of the large house, in which were several great baskets of 

 dried human heads, the trophies of past generations of 

 head-hunters. Here also there was a little mountain 

 covered with fruit-trees, and there were some magnificent 



