say, upon this subject almost entirely on their statements, adding, here
and there, particulars of interest from the writings of Brooke,
Wallace, and others.

The Orang-Utan would rarely seem to exceed four feet in height, but the
body is very bulky, measuring two-thirds of the height in
circumference.*

[footnote] *The largest Orang-Utan, cited by Temminck,
measured, when standing upright, 4 ft.; but he mentions
having just received news of the capture of an Orang 5 ft.
3 in. high. Schlegel and Juller say that their largest old
male measured, upright, 1.25 Netherlands "el"; and from the
crown to the end of the toes, 1.5 el; the circumference of
the body being about 1 el. The largest old female was 1.09
el high, when standing. The adult skeleton in the College
of Surgeons' Museum, if set upright, would stand 3 ft. 6-8
in. from crown to sole. Dr. Humphry gives 3 ft. 8 in. as
the mean height of two Orangs. Of seventeen Orangs
examined by Mr. Wallace, the largest was 4 ft. 2 in. high,
from the heel to the crown of the head. Mr. Spencer St.
John, however, in his 'Life in the Forests of the Far
East', tells us of an Orang of "5 ft. 2 in., measuring
fairly from the head to the heel," 15 in. across the face,
and 12 in. round the wrist. It does not appear, however,
that Mr. St. John measured this Orang himself.

The Orang-Utan is found only in Sumatra and Borneo, and is common in
neither of these islands--in both of which it occurs always in low,
flat plains, never in the mountains. It loves the densest and most