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leg hanging down useless, having been broken by a ball. He now fixed himself in a fork, where he 
was hidden by thick foliage, and seemed disinclined to move. I was afraid he would remain and die 
in this position, and as it was nearly evening I could not have got the tree cut down that day. I 
therefore fired again, and he then moved off, and going up the hill was obliged to get on to some lower 
trees, on the branches of one of which he fixed himself in such a position that he could not fall, and 
lay all in a heap, as if dead or dying. I now wanted the Dyaks to go up and cut off’ the branch he 
was resting on, but they were afraid, saying he was not dead, and would come and attack them. We 
then shook the adjoining tree, pulled the hanging creepers, and did all we could to disturb him, but 
without effect ; so I thought it best to send for two Chinamen with axes to cut down the tree. While 
the messenger was gone, however, one of the Dyaks took courage and climbed towards him, but the 
Mias did not wait for him to get near, moving off to another tree, where he got on to a dense mass of 
branches and creepers, which almost completely hid him from our view. The tree was luckily a small 
one, so when the axes came we soon had it cut through ; but it was so held up by jungle ropes and 
climbers to adjoining trees that it only fell into a sloping position. The Mias did not move, and I 
FRONT AND SIDE FACE OF THE ORANG. 
began to fear that, after all, we should not get him, as it was near evening, and half-a-dozen more trees 
would have to be cut down before the one he was on would fall. As a last resource we all began 
pulling at the creepers, which shook the tree very much ; and, after a few minutes, when we had almost 
given up all hopes, down he came with a crash and a thud like the fall of a giant. And he was a 
giant, his head and body being full as large as a man’s. He was of the kind called by the Dyaks 
1 Mias Chapyian,’ or ‘ Mias Pappan/ which has the skin of the face broadened out to a ridge or fold 
at each side. His outstretched arms measured seven feet three inches across, and his height, measuring 
fairly from the top of the head to the heel, was four feet two inches. The body just below the arms 
was three feet two inches round, and was quite as long as a man’s, the legs being exceedingly short in 
proportion. On examination we found he had been dreadfully wounded. Both legs were broken, one 
hip-joint and the root of the spine completely shattered, and two bullets were found flattened in his 
neck and jaws ; yet he was still alive when he fell. The two Chinamen carried him home tied to a 
pole; and I was occupied with Charley the whole of the next day, preparing the skin and boiling the 
bones, to make a perfect skeleton, which are now preserved in the museum at Derby.” 
The following description from the same author gives an excellent idea of the nature of the country 
inhabited by another Orang, and of its Monkey companions : — 
“ After a few miles, the stream became very narrow and winding, and the whole country on each 
side was flooded. On the banks were abundance of Monkeys — the common Macacus cynomolgus, a 
black Semnojnthecus, and the extraordinary Long-nosed Monkey ( Nasalis larvatus ), which is as larger 
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