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dimensions of Oraugs, it is not too much to conclude that 

 Mf. St. John's friend made a similar error of mensuremeut, 

 or rather, perhaps, of memory ; for we are not tokl that 

 the dimensions were noted dowa at the time they vxre 

 wade. The only figures given by llr. St John on his 

 owQ authority ai-e that " the head %vas 15 inches hroad 

 by l-t inches long." As my largest male was V.'>}t 

 hvoad across the face, measured as soon as the animal 

 was killed, I can quite understand that wlien tlie head 

 aiTived at Sarawak from the Butang Lupur, after two if 

 not three days' voyage, it was so swollen by decomposititm 

 wA to measure an inch more than when it was fretsk Un 

 the whole, therefore, I thlidc it will be allowed, that up to 

 this time we have not the least reliable evidence of the 

 existence of Orangs in Borneo more than 4 feet 2 inches 

 high. 



CHAPTER V. 



BORNKO— JOURimY IN THE IKTEBIOE, 

 (soviatBEB X855 to jasuauy 186a.) 



AS the wet season was approaching I determined to 

 return to Sai-awak, sending all my collections with 

 diaries Allen round by sea, while I myself proposed to go 

 lip to the sources of the Sadong lii^^er, and descend by the 

 Sarawak valley. As the route was somewhat diiBcult, I 

 took the smallest quantity of baggage, and only one sen*ant, 

 a Malay lad named Bajon, whu knew the language of the 

 t;adong Dyaks, with whom he had traded We left the 

 mines on the 27th of November, and the next day reaehed 

 the Malay village of Giidong, where I stayed a short time 

 tu buy fi'^Ait and eggs, and called upon the Datu Bundur, or 

 ilalay governor of the place. Ho lived in a lai-ge and 

 >\'ell- built house, very dirty outside and in, and was very 

 intiuisitive about my business, and particularly about the 

 coal mines. These puzzle the natives exceedingly, as they 



