100 BORNEO— THE ORANG-UTAN. [chap. 1 v. 



broad across the face, measured as soon as the animal 

 was killed, I can quite understand that when the head 

 arrived at Sarawak from the Batang Lupar, after two if 

 not three days' voyage, it was so swollen by decomposition 

 as to measure an inch more than when it was fresh. On 

 the whole, therefore, I think it will be allowed, that up to 

 this time we have not the least reliable evidence of the 

 existence of Orangs in Borneo more than 4 feet 2 inches 

 high. 



