view, so as to allow me to have a shot. This was not an easy
matter, as the Mias had a knack of selecting places with dense
foliage beneath. Very soon, however, one of the Dyaks called me
and pointed upwards, and on looking I saw a great red hairy body
and a huge black face gazing down from a great height, as if
wanting to know what was making such a disturbance below. I
instantly fired, and he made off at once, so that I could not
then tell whether I had hit him.

He now moved very rapidly and very noiselessly for so large an
animal, so I told the Dyaks to follow and keep him in sight while
I loaded. The jungle was here full of large angular fragments of
rock from the mountain above, and thick with hanging and twisted
creepers. Running, climbing, and creeping among these, we came up
with the creature on the top of a high tree near the road, where
the Chinamen had discovered him, and were shouting their
astonishment with open mouths: "Ya Ya, Tuan; Orangutan, Tuan."
Seeing that he could not pass here without descending, he turned
up again towards the hill, and I got two shots, and following
quickly, had two more by the time he had again reached the path,
but he was always more or less concealed by foliage, and
protected by the large branch on which he was walking. Once while
loading I had a splendid view of him, moving along a large limb
of a tree in a semi-erect posture, and showing it to be an animal
of the largest size. At the path he got on to one of the loftiest
trees in the forest, and we could see one leg hanging down
useless, having been broken by a ball. He now fixed himself in a
fork, where he was hidden by thick foliage, and seemed
disinclined to move. I was afraid he would remain and die in this
position, and as it was nearly evening. I could not have got the