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A Dl-AK HOUSE. 



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oxtmordmar}^ lona-nosed monlcey.(Nasali3 larvatus), which 

 is as large as a three-j^ear old child, has a very loti*^ tail, 

 and a fleshy nose, longer than that of the higgest-nosed 

 man. TIip further we went on the narrower and more 

 winding the stream hecame ; fallen trees sometimes 

 hlocked up our passage, and sometimes tan<,ded branches 

 and creepers met completely across it, and had to be 

 cut away he fore we could get on. It took us two days 

 to reach Serndhang, and we hardly saw a hit of dry land 

 all the way. In the latter part of the Journey I could 

 touch tlie hushes on eacli side for miles; and we were 

 often delayed hy the screw-pines (Pandanus), wliicli grew 

 ahundantly in the water, falling across the stream. In 

 other places dense rafts of floating grass completely fdled 

 up the channel, making our journey a constant succession 

 of difficulties. 



^N'ear the landing-plaee we found a fme house, 250 

 feet long, raised higli ahove the ground on posts, with a 

 wide verandah aiid still wider platform of hamhoo in 

 front of it Almost all the people, liowever, were away 

 on some excursion after edible birds -nests or bees'-wax, 

 and there only remained in the house two or three old men 

 and women with a lot of children. The mountain or hill 

 was close hy, covered with a complete forest of fruit-trees, 

 among which the Dnrian and Mangiisteen were very 

 abundant ; hut tlie fruit was not yet quite ripe, except 

 a little here and there. I spent a week at this place, 

 going out ever>' day in various directions about the moun- 

 tain, accompanied hy a Malay, who had stayed with me 

 while tlie other hoatinen returned. For three days we 

 found no Orangs, but shot a deer and several monkeys. 

 On the fourth day, however, we found a Miiis feeding on 

 a very lofty Duriau tree, and succeeded in killing it, afu^r 

 eight shots. Unfortunately it remained in the ti'ee, hanging 

 hy its hands, and we were obliged to leave it and return 

 home, as it was several miles off. As I felt pretty sure it 

 ^v'ould fall during the night, I returned to the place early 

 the next morning, and found it on the ground l>eneath the 

 tree. To my astonishment aufl pleasure, it appeared to he 

 a different kind from any I had yet seen for although a 

 full-grown male hy its fully developed teeth and very 



