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were assembled, and the waiters preparing to set 

 on the dishes, for Sir Robert is wonderfully 

 punctual. He, however, spied me out, and before 

 I could get my wrapper off took me to be intro- 

 duced to the Rajah. His Excellency was in 

 conversation with the Chevalier Bunsen. A 

 most friendly greeting ! There was a peculiar 

 link between us in a very humble subject of 

 Sarawak, a species of orang-utang which I had 

 described as new, before Mr. Brooke arrived at 

 Borneo, from a skull that I happened to have the 

 opportunity of seeing, and which he found to be 

 well known as a species distinct from the great 

 orang by the natives. The party sat down as 

 follows : Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Brooke, Chev. 

 Bunsen, Baron Alderson, Croly, R. Owen, Chas. 

 Eastlake, Vice-Chancellor (Shadwell), Sir Fred. 

 Pollock, Baron Rolfe, Hallam, Sir R. Westmacott, 

 Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Gregson. Eastlake began 

 by asking me whether the habits or characteristics 

 of animals were always indicated by their outward 

 form, and quoted contradictory opinions he had 

 had from Lyell and others. The Vice-Chancellor 

 waxed warm at the indignity put upon the Eton 

 boys by having been invited by the Queen to see 

 Womb well's menagerie. He vowed he would not 

 have gone ; it was treating them like a charity 

 school. Sir Fred, fed the fire by intimating that 

 buns had been served out to them, to which Rolfe 

 added, " Elderberry wine." Croly argued it was 



