As I Felt Pretty Sure It Would Fall During The Night,
I Returned To The Place Early The Next Morning, And Found It On
The Ground Beneath The Tree.
To my astonishment and pleasure, it
appeared to be a different kind from any I had yet seen; for
Although a full-grown male, by its fully developed teeth and very
large canines, it had no sign of the lateral protuberance on the
face, and was about one-tenth smaller in all its dimensions than
the other adult males. The upper incisors, however, appeared to
be broader than in the larger species, a character distinguishing
the Simia morio of Professor Owen, which he had described from
the cranium of a female specimen. As it was too far to carry the
animal home, I set to work and skinned the body on the spot,
leaving the head, hands, and feet attached, to be finished at
home. This specimen is now in the British Museum.
At the end of a week, finding no more Orangs, I returned home;
and, taking in a few fresh stores, and this time accompanied by
Charles, went up another branch of the river, very similar in
character, to a place called Menyille, where there were several
small Dyak houses and one large one. Here the landing place was a
bridge of rickety poles, over a considerable distance of water;
and I thought it safer to leave my cask of arrack securely placed
in the fork of a tree.
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