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Title: Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Hunting East Indies -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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minates in a flat round disk which acts like the suckerof an octopus, and enables the little animal to hold on to a limb bythe side pressure of its hands and without grasping, as all the othermonkeys do. The eyes are very large, and of a clear liquid browncolor, proclaiming the nocturnal habits of the animal. Dobah still has fever, Perara is complaining, and would like tohave it also in order to escape work. Ah Kee is a jewel, cheerfuland companionable. He has just made me a very creditable sleep-ing suit, pajamas and baju. November 5th.—Three argus pheasants and a jungle cockwere brought in, all of which I bought and prepared. Having be-come somewhat acquainted with the inmates of our house, I havecommenced to lecture the women on the desirability of bringingtheir children in contact with clean water at least once a month.They received my lecture as a fine bit of humor on my part, but Ithink they were ashamed nevertheless. November 6th.—Early in the morning we heard another troop
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ji I ■A-I■/! A MONTH WITH THE DTAKS. 421 of gibbons Avhistling in the jungle close by, and in twenty minuteswe were under them. Shot a fine old couple, male and female, anda young one belonging to the latter. Allowed two other small onesto get away on account of their tender age. November 1th.—Out hunting all the forenoon. Came upona troop of gibbons, had a fair chance at an old female and let herget away through sheer stupidity ; didnt fire when I had a chance,hoping to get a better one. Saw a number of traj)s set by theDyaks to catch argus pheasants and small quadrupeds. In this in-stance a low hedge of green boughs had been built from one ravineto another across a ridge in the most inviting part of the forest.The hedge is a cai-eless affair, about two feet high, but withal socunningly made that I actually walked into one of the traps with-out seeing it! At every rod or so a clean gap is left just wideenough for a biid or small mammal to walk through without sus-picion, and wh

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