Yet It Was After This Fearful Wound That He Had Risen,
And Begun Climbing With Considerable Facility.
This also was a
full-grown male of almost exactly the same dimensions as the
other two I had measured.
On June 21st I shot another adult female, which was eating fruit
in a low tree, and was the only one which I ever killed by a
single ball.
On June 24th I was called by a Chinaman to shoot a Mias, which,
he said, was on a tree close by his house, at the coal-mines.
Arriving at the place, we had some difficulty in finding the
animal, as he had gone off into the jungle, which was very rocky
and difficult to traverse. At last we found him up a very high
tree, and could see that he was a male of the largest size. As
soon as I had fired, he moved higher up the tree, and while he
was doing so I fired again; and we then saw that one arm was
broken. He had now reached the very highest part of an immense
tree, and immediately began breaking off boughs all around, and
laying them across and across to make a nest. It was very
interesting to see how well he had chosen his place, and how
rapidly he stretched out his unwounded arm in every direction,
breaking off good-sized boughs with the greatest ease, and laying
them back across each other, so that in a few minutes he had
formed a compact mass of foliage, which entirely concealed him
from our sight.
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