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English: THE GIBBON'S MODES OF PROGRESSION. 1-4. Swinging through the tree-tops.-5. Walking on level ground.-6.Climbing through the tree-trops. (From sketches by the Author)

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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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y—to such a delightful wilderness. It was the finest hunting-ground I saw anywhere in Sarawak. I was sure that suchvhigh ground and fine open forest must be frequented by correspondingly fine mammals and birds in great numbers, for it seemed to me just the spot an animal would choose for a home—I would have been content to end my days there, had I been a monkey—and the Dyaks assured me my surmise was correct. In order to place before the reader a pen picture of our daily life in the jungle with the Dyaks, what we did, saw, and thought, I venture to transcribe a portion of my much despised but faithfully kept journal. November 1st.—That fine young Dyak accompanies me regularly now as a guide, and with him and my faithful little Malay man, Dobah, I went out hunting for orang-utans and Hylohates. We hunted far and wide over the hills, saw a great number of mias nests, but no mias. But we at last became absorbed in trying to kill a gibbon, and it soon developed into genuine sport, about the
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a,o to 5o I. m O. o H a to O toa -J2 A MONTH WITH THE DYAKS. 415 only real sport I have yet bad in Borneo, and this is about the character of it. You are going along, we will say, at the heels of your Dyak guide, carrying your rifle in the hope of a shot at big game, while the guide carries your double-barrelled gun. All at once you hear a slight vocal sound and a profound rustling in the thick branches at the top of a tall tree, directly over your head. Apa iai ? (Whats that ?), you ask in a whisper. Wah-wah, tuan ! (gibbons, sir!), says the guide in the same tone. You take the double-barrel, loaded with No. 1 shot, and peer anxiously upward to catch sight of the animal. Ah! there he is, on the other side of the tree, and evidently ipaking ofif. You cannot see his body on account of the leaves, so you steal quickly round and get directly under him to give him a surprise with a charge of shot. But by the time you get around he is apparently no longer there, for you hear a nistling in a tree-t

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