50 LITTLE FOLKS 
looks like a little hut up in the tree. They run along the limbs, 
and swing themselves from one tree to another. The trees are so 
near together in their native forests, that they can easily do it. 
They have no feet — as you see in the picture — but four 
hands, and they have such a grip that when they are dead the 
grasp is not loosened for some time. When the mother is out with 
her baby and is attacked, she defends herself by throwing branches 
and fruit at her tormentor, but Papa Orang scorns such an undig- 
nified proceeding. He don't hesitate to fly at a man, and bury 
his teeth in his flesh. So the natives of the country are afraid 
of him. 
They usually find all the water they need to drink in the 
hollows of the leaves, but when there are no fruits and they go 
down to the water for tender young shoots to eat, and water to 
drink, a self sufficient crocodile will sometimes venture to attack 
one. He generally gets the worst of it, however, for the Orang 
jumps on his back, pulls open his jaws and kills him. The animals 
of the forest know him better, and never touch him. 
This charming family is found only in Borneo and Sumatra, 
and I don't believe the rest of the world feel very bad about it. 
Whole books have been written about monkeys, and of course 
I can't tell you half the strange and wonderful things about 
them. You have read about the droll way they have of crossing 
rivers, by making a bridge of themselves, and though some people 
deny that it is true, others of the best and most reliable authorities 
insist that it is a fact ; so I think we may venture to believe it. 
There are many different kinds of animals, from the monster 
Gorilla to the pretty little Marmoset, that are vulgarly called 
monkeys, but they are brought — in the big books — under one 
name, Quadrumana, which means four handed. 
Here is a picture of another variety of this family Pretty 
looking fellows, arn't they? The little one seems to be taking a 
lecture of some sort, but I don't think he cares much about it. 
These monkeys — Long-nosed Monkeys, they are called — look so 
much like human beings, that the natives of the Malay Islands say 
they are men who have run into the woods to avoid paying taxes. 
Mr. Wallace says they are about the size of a three years old 
child, and the nose is longer than any man's nose. They live in 
the trees, and are very wild. 
The Islanders also say that when jumping about among the 
