. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . *ing all over us. He fell within ten feet of our boat, andwe secured him without getting out. A FIGHT IN THE TKEE-TOPS.(Drawn from the group in the U. S. National Museum mounted bu the Author.) DOINGS IN THE OEANG-UTAN COUNTEY. 375 As we seized the arms and pulled the massive head up to thesurface of the water, the monster gave a great gasp, and looked re-proachfully at us out of his haK-closed eyes. I can never forgetthe strange and even awful sensation with which I regard
. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . *ing all over us. He fell within ten feet of our boat, andwe secured him without getting out. A FIGHT IN THE TKEE-TOPS.(Drawn from the group in the U. S. National Museum mounted bu the Author.) DOINGS IN THE OEANG-UTAN COUNTEY. 375 As we seized the arms and pulled the massive head up to thesurface of the water, the monster gave a great gasp, and looked re-proachfully at us out of his haK-closed eyes. I can never forgetthe strange and even awful sensation with which I regarded theface of the dying animal. There was nothing in it in the leastsuggestive of anything human, but I felt as if I had shot somegrim and terrible gnome or river-god, a sat}T indeed ! Ahdo ! Ahdo ! exclaimed Lamudin in Malay, the Rajah ofall the mias ! We were all filled with wonder at the huge beast before was a perfect giant in size, larger than any the natives had everseen before, and the largest ever shot by a naturahst. His head,body, and limbs were simply immense, and his weight could nothave been much, if any, less than one hundred and ninety pounds. To give an idea of his size and proportions,
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