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steadily during the ten days I spent with Omar. By, 
the time the orang-outangs were ready to travel, 
we had three gibbons, four baby orang-outangs, one 
proboscis-monkey, ten black monkeys, eighteen 
long-tailed monkeys, twenty-two pig-tailed mon- 
keys, three pythons, which averaged eight feet in 
length, two sambur deer, one sun-bear, three wild- 
cats, four civet-cats, four porcupines, one ant-eater 
and two armadillos. 
We slipped the bars over the open ends of the 
cages in which the big fellows were to travel, and 
lashed them securely with rattan ropes. Since the 
boats at the kampong were too small, I had two 
large rafts made of bamboo and I placed all the 
cages on them. 
When everything was ready, we boarded the 
boats and rafts and started down the river. The 
people lined the banks, shouting and wishing us a 
safe journey; others followed us in boats. At each 
village, the natives swarmed out to see the animals 
and wish us luck. I can still hear them calling: 
“Tian, bila balk? Salam-at jalan! (Sir, when 
will you come back? Safe journey!)” 
We stopped at Mahommed Munshee’s village, 
and then at Sintang. I found that Dr. Van Erman 
had gone down to Pontianak. Another swarm of 
natives met us when we arrived there, and I had 
to station my men around the rafts to keep them 
from coming aboard. 
Leaving Ali in charge of the animals, I went 
