CHAP, iT.j 



A FEMALS JUJS, 



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then soon made off over the tree-tops. I did not care to 

 follow it, as it was swampy, and in parts dangerous, £Uid 

 I might easily have lost myseli' in the eagerness of pursuit 

 On the 12th of May I found another, which behaved in 

 a veiy similar manner, howling and hooting with rage, and 

 throwing down branches, I shot at it five times, and it 

 remaiiied dead on tlie top of the tree, supported in a fork 

 in auch a manner that it wonld evidently not fall. I there- 

 fore returned home, and hickily found some Dyaks, who 

 came back with me, and climbed up the tree for the animal 

 This was the firet fuH-gi'owii specimen I had obtained ; but 



it was a female, and not nearly so large or remarkable as 

 the full-grown males. It was, however, 3 ft. 6 in. high, 

 and its arms stretched out to a width of 6 ft 6 in. I pre- 

 served the skin of this specimen in a cask of arrack, and 

 prepared a perfect skeleton, which was afterwards purchased 

 for the Derby Museum. 



Only four days afterwards some Dyaks saw anothei 

 Mias near the same place, and came to tell ma We found 



