At This Time I Had The Misfortune To Slip Among Some Fallen
Trees, And Hurt My Ankle; And, Not Being
Careful enough at first,
it became a severe inflamed ulcer, which would not heal, and kept
me a prisoner in
The house the whole of July and part of August.
When I could get out again, I determined to take a trip up a
branch of the Simunjon River to Semabang, where there was said to
be a large Dyak house, a mountain with abundance of fruit, and
plenty of Orangs and fine birds. As the river was very narrow,
and I was obliged to go in a very small boat with little luggage,
I only took with me a Chinese boy as a servant. I carried a cask
of medicated arrack to put Mias skins in, and stores and
ammunition for a fortnight. After a few miles, the stream became
very narrow and winding, and the whole country on each side was
flooded. On the banks were an abundance of monkeys - the common
Macacus cynomolgus, a black Semnopithecus, and the extraordinary
long-nosed monkey (Nasalis larvatus), which is as large as a
three-year old child, has a very long tail, and a fleshy nose
longer than that of the biggest-nosed man. The further we went on
the narrower and more winding the stream became; fallen trees
sometimes blocked up our passage, and sometimes tangled branches
and creepers met completely across it, and had to be cut away
before we could get on.
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