two or three species of small necrophagous beetles. The skull had
been much shattered by balls, but the skeleton was perfect,
except one small wristbone, which had probably dropped out and
been carried away by a lizard.

Three days after I had shot this one and lost it, Charles found
three small Orangs feeding together. We had a long chase after
them, and had a good opportunity of seeing how they make their
way from tree to tree by always choosing those limbs whose
branches are intermingled with those of some other tree, and then
grasping several of the small twigs together before they venture
to swing themselves across. Yet they do this so quickly and
certainly, that they make way among the trees at the rate of full
five or six miles an hour, as we had continually to run to keep
up with them. One of these we shot and killed, but it remained
high up in the fork of a tree; and, as young animals are of
comparatively little interest, I did not have the tree cut down
to get it.

At this time I had the misfortune to slip among some fallen
trees, and hurt my ankle; and, not being careful enough at first,
it became a severe inflamed ulcer, which would not heal, and kept
me a prisoner in the house the whole of July and part of August.
When I could get out again, I determined to take a trip up a
branch of the Simunjon River to Semabang, where there was said to
be a large Dyak house, a mountain with abundance of fruit, and
plenty of Orangs and fine birds. As the river was very narrow,
and I was obliged to go in a very small boat with little luggage,
I only took with me a Chinese boy as a servant. I carried a cask
of medicated arrack to put Mias skins in, and stores and