Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . they are very careful, and whose wants they supply with almosthuman tenderness and devotion. When taken young they are suscep-tible of taming and domesticating, like the chimpanzee, but as they growolder they become cross and violent, and, curiously enough, the fore-head—prominent in the adult—becomes retreating in later years. Formidable Foe. After waiting some days without seeing any oran
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . they are very careful, and whose wants they supply with almosthuman tenderness and devotion. When taken young they are suscep-tible of taming and domesticating, like the chimpanzee, but as they growolder they become cross and violent, and, curiously enough, the fore-head—prominent in the adult—becomes retreating in later years. Formidable Foe. After waiting some days without seeing any orangs, my native guideadvised our going away from the river, deeper into the unbroken forest;and this we did, a two days march. One morning, just as I had killedand was examining a queer wild pig, I heard a rustling in the leaves overmy head, and looking up, was paralyzed with surprise to see, sometwenty-five or thirty feet above me, an enormous orang-outang quietlyseated on a tamarind branch, watching me and grinding his teeth. Myporter was making ,rae elaborate signals of distress which Thursdaytranslated into advice to shoot the beast, who was old and fully grown,with, my explosive-ball (611) 612 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. He says he is an evil one, added Thursday, and that the old orangsare very dangerous and will attack a man at sight. All right, I replied. If he offers to attack us, I will stop himpromptly with a bullet. It is true that one of my most ardent desires was to obtain a skeletonof a fully-developed orang-outang, but I decided to postpone the gratifi-cation of it until I should have watched the animals movements in astate of absolute freedom. I told my men to clap their hands and shout,to scare him, but all he did was to sit and grind his teeth; and I wasalmost persuaded to try my Dyaks advice, when the orang-outangcoolly grasped a branch hanging near, and swung himself slowly fromtree to tree without any apparent effort, about as fast as we could walkbe
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