on the face, and was about one-tenth smaller in all its
dimensions than the other adult males. The upper in-
cisors, 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, I 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 Men-
yille, 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. To prevent the natives from drinking it, I
let several of them see me put in a number of snakes and
lizards ; hut I rather think this did not prevent them from
tasting it. "We were accommodated here in the verandah
of the large house, in which were several great baskets of
dried human heads, the trophies of past generations of
head-hunters. Here also there was a little mountain
covered with fruit-trees, and there were some magnificent
Durian trees close by the house, the fruit of which was
ripe; and as the Dyaks looked upon me as a benefactor in
killing the Mias which destroys a great deal of their fruit,
they let us eat as much as we liked, and 'we revelled in
this emperor of fruits in its greatest perfection.
The very day after my arrival in this place, I was so
fortunate as to shoot another adult male of the small
orang, the Mias-kassir of the Dyaks. It fell when dead,
but caught in a fork of the tree and remained fixed. As I
was very anxious to get it, I tried to persuade two young,
Dyaks who were with me to cut down the tree, which was
tall, perfectly straight and smooth-barked, and without a
branch for fifty or sixty feet. To my surprise, they said
they would prefer climbing up it, but it would be a good
deal of trouble, and, after a little talking together, they said
they would try. They first went to a clump of bamboo
that stood near, and cut down one of the largest stems.
Prom this they chopped off a short piece, and splitting it,
made a couple of stout pegs, about a foot long, and sharp
at one end. Then cutting a thick piece of wood for a
mallet, they drove one of the pegs into the tree and hung
their weight upon it. I t held, and this seemed to satisfy
them, for they immediately began making a quantity of
pegs of the same kind; while I looked on with Og re‘at
interest, wondering how they could possibly ascend such a
lofty tree by merely driving pegs in it, the failure of any