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passed before we could ship the beast to Singapore, 
for transshipment to Perth. 
I received for the animal £200, which was about 
one quarter of its value. But it was as much as the 
Perth Zodlogical Gardens could afford to pay, and 
I was glad to be able to put so fine a specimen into 
the hands of Mr. La Souef. 
One day when I was busy in my animal house, 
Ali came to me with the message that three natives 
from Pontianak, Borneo, were outside. They had 
something important to tell me, Ali said. When 
they came in, I found that I knew one of them; he 
was an animal trader from whom I had bought 
some birds and monkeys. The other. two were head- 
men from the interior of Borneo. 
The headmen had gone to the trader with the 
story of two large orang-outangs that were terror- 
izing their villages, and the trader was bringing 
them to me for advice. We sat down in the shade 
and discussed the situation. The orang-outangs 
had run off with a young girl and had recently 
killed one of the men. The natives had tried 
repeatedly to kill them, but without success, and 
now they were afraid to venture into the jungle. 
For several years I had had a standing order 
from the Antwerp Zodlogical Gardens for a good 
specimen of orang-outang, and I had planned to go, 
just as soon as my health permitted, into Borneo, 
to see what I could find. Orang-outangs command 
unlimited prices because they are so hard to cap- 
