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got on to one of the loftiest trees in tlie forest, and we could see 

 one leg hanging down useless, having been broken by a ball. He 

 now fixed himself in a fork, where he was hidden by thick 

 foliage, and seemed disinclined to move. I was afraid he would 

 remain and die in this position, and, as it was nearly evening, I 

 could not have got the tree cut down that day. I therefore fired 

 again, and he then moved ofl", and, going up the hill, was obliged 

 to get on to some lower trees, on the branches of one of which he 

 fixed himself in such a position that he could not fall, and lay all 

 in a heap as if dead, or dying. 



" I now wanted the Dyaks to go up and cut off the branch he 

 was resting on, but they were afraid, saying he was not dead, and 

 would come and attack them. "We then shook the adjoining tree, 

 pulled the hanging creepers, and did all we could to disturb him, 

 but without effect, so I thought it best to send for two Chinamen 

 with axes to cut down the tree. "While the messenger was gone, 

 however, one of the Dyaks took courage and climbed towards him, 

 but the mias did not wait for him to get near, moving off to another 

 tree, where he got on to a dense mass of branches and creepers, 

 which almost immediately hid him from our view. The tree was 

 luckily a small one, so when the axes came we soon had it cut 

 through ; but it was so held up by jungle-ropes and climbers to 

 adjoining trees that it only fell into a sloping position. The mias 

 did not move, and I began to fear that after all we should not get 

 him, as it was near evening, and half-a-dozen more trees would 

 have to be cut down before the one he was on would fall. As a 

 last resource we all began pulling at the creepers, which shook the 

 tree very much, and after a few minutes, when we had almost 

 given up all hopes, down he came with a crash and a thud, like the 

 fall of a giant. And he was a giant, his head and body being full 

 as large as a man's. He was of the kind called by the Dyaks, 

 ' mias chappen,' or ' mias pappan,' which has the skin of the face 

 broadened out to a ridge or fold at each side. His outstretched 

 arms measured seven feet three inches across, and his height, 

 measuring fairly from the top of the head to the heel, was four feet 

 two inches. The body just below the arms was three feet two 

 inches round, and was quite as long as a man's, the legs being 



