the kind called by the Dyaks “ Mias Chappan,” or “ Mias
Pappan,” which has the skin of the face broadened out
to a ridge or fold at each side. His outstretched arms
measured seven feet three inches across, and his height,
measuring fairly from the top of the head to the heel,
was four feet two inches. The body just below the
arms was three feet two inches round, and was quite
as long as a man’s, the legs being exceedingly short in
proportion. On examination we found he had been
dreadfully wounded. Both legs were broken, one hip-
joint and the root of the spine completely shattered, and
two bullets were found flattened in his neck and jaws!
Yet he was still alive when he fell. The two Chinamen
carried him home tied to a pole^ and I was occupied with
Charley the whole of the next day, preparing the skin and
boiling the hones to make a perfect skeleton, which are
now preserved in the Museum at Derby.
About ten days after this, on June 4th, some Dyaks
came to tell us that the day before a Mias had nearly
killed one of their companions. A few miles down the
river there is a Dyak house, and the inhabitants saw a
large Orang feeding on the young shoots of a palm by the
river-side. On being alarmed he retreated towards the
jungle which was close by, and a number of the men,
armed with spears and choppers, rah out to intercept him.
The man who was in front tried to run his spear through
the animal’s body, but the Mias seized it in his hands, and
in an instant got hold of the man’s arm, which he seized in
his mouth, making his teeth meet in the flesh above the
elbow, which he tore and lacerated in a dreadful manner.
Had not the others been close behind, the man would have
been more seriously injured, if not killed, as he was quite
powerless; but they soon destroyed the creature with their
spears and choppers. The man remained ill for a long
time, and never fully recovered the use of his arm.
They told me the dead Mias was still lying where it had
been killed, so I offered them a reward to bring it up to
our landing-place immediately, which they promised to do.
They did not come, however, till the next day, and then
decomposition had commenced, and great patches of the
hair came off, so that it was useless to skin it. This I
regretted much, as it was a very fine full-grown male. I
cut off the head and took it home to clean, while I got
my men to make a close fence about five feet high round
the rest of the body, which would soon be devoured by
maggots, small lizards, and ants, leaving me the skeleton.
There w'as a great gash in his face, which had cut deep
into the bone, but the skull was a very fine one, and the
teeth remarkably large and perfect.
On June 18th I had another great success, and obtained
a fine adult male. A Chinaman told me he had seen him
feeding by the side of the path to the river, and I found