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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 
Wombwell’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 
