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even that of a dozen could pull him down, 

 against his wish. You might pull the pipe 

 itself down, but not the orang alone, for his 

 strength is truly prodigious. Only a few 

 weeks before Dohong 's last illness, he pulled 

 rivetted iron staples out of their settings, bent 

 and pushed aside the extra iron bars of his 

 cage, and did other things which not only 

 caused those in charge to consider seriously, 

 but to wonder to what degree his strength 

 would eventually develop? 



In this instance, Dohong finally allowed him- 

 self to be taken back to his cage on Polly be- 

 ing brought back and one keeper goint in front 

 with her, when Dohong meekly followed. The 

 affection between these two animals was one of 

 the most wonderful things I have ever seen. 

 The manner in which they always appeared to 

 think of one another, the curious code of sig- 

 nals they employed in order to make one an- 

 other understand what was going on when they 

 were occasionally separated from one another, 

 makes one wonder whether after all, Darwin 

 was not right in some of his theories ? 



