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morning, I was sorry to see it occupied in trying to get rid of 
its waist-belt and rope, while at the same time it uttered a 
sharp, plaintive cry. When unfastened, it went towards a 
group of Malays, and after catching hold of the legs of some 
of them, it approached one who was lying down, jumped on 
him, and closely embraced him with an expression of recognition. 
I learned that this man in whose arms the Monkey showed so 
much pleasure, was its first master. 
“ . . . . When the boy in waiting announced that dinner 
was ready, Ungka never failed to enter the hut, take her place at 
the table, and thankfully receive tit-bits. If by chance any 
one laughed at her during the meal, she showed her indignation 
by making a low, barking noise, which was peculiar to her when 
angry. Distending her cheek-pouches with air, she looked at 
her tormentors seriously, until they had ceased to amuse them- 
selves at her expense.” 
Mr. Bennett adds that Ungka preferred vegetables, such as 
rice and onions, to flesh. She drank tea, coffee, and chocolate, but 
never wine or spirituous liquors. 
The Hooloch Gibbon (Fig. 264) has afforded the same proofs 
of intelligence and affection. The testimony of various people 
proves this. This species is very readily distinguished from its 
congeners by the white superciliary band that encircles its face. 
Genus Orang. — The Orangs have much analogy with the 
Gibbons, but they are more robust and more intelligent; and, 
in addition, have no gluteal callosities. In figure they are square, 
their body is covered with reddish hair, and their face, partly 
nude, is fringed with whiskers, which are prolonged beneath the 
chin in the form of a beard. Like the Gibbons, they carry 
above the sternum a pouch which communicates with the larynx, 
and which is susceptible of distension by an influx of air. This 
in these animals, as in the preceding, appears to be useful in 
increasing the volume of their voice. 
These animals are somewhat rare, and limited to a small region. 
They inhabit the thick forests covering the low, damp lands in 
the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, hence the name of Orang- 
Outang, or Man of the Woods, which has been given to them by 
the naturalists of these countries. It is only by accident that 
they appear in open places, and in the vicinity of habitations. 
