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Title: Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Walker, H. Wilfrid
Subjects: Walker, H. Wilfrid Ethnology
Publisher: London : Witherby
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e Bornean rivers one is constantly seeingpigs, crocodiles and monkeys, but I noticed onthis river an abundance of a monkey which oneseldom sees on the large Kinabatangan River. Irefer to the very curious proboscis or long-nosedmonkey (Nasalis larvatus). These animals oftensat still overhead and stared down at us in themost contemptuous and indifferent manner, andthey looked so human and yet so comical withtheir enormous red noses that I found myselflaughing aloud, our scullers doing the same, tillthe monkeys actually grinned with indignation.They are large monkeys with long tails, and arebeautifully marked with various shades of greyand brown, and their large, fleshy, red noses givethem an extraordinary appearance. One of them did a performance that astonishedme. We saw a group of them on a branch overthe river about forty yards ahead of us, when oneof them jumped into the middle of the river andcoolly swam to a hanging creeper up which itchmbed, none the worse for its voluntary bath.
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ON A BORNBAN EIVEE. 1228 A MONKEYS SWIM 229 This was the only time that I had ever seen amonkey swim, but the natives assured me thatthese monkeys are very good swimmers. Itstruck me as being a very risky performance, asthis river was full of crocodiles. I saw on this river a wonderful orchid growingon large trees. This was a Grammatophyllum withbulbs sometimes over eight feet in length. Thelength of the name is certainly suitable for solarge an orchid. I saw plenty of water-birds,including white egrets and a long-necked diverwhich is called the snake-bird, owing to its longneck projecting out of the water and thus greatlyresembling a snake. I shot several of each kindof bird, plucking the fine plumes from the backsof the egrets. We ate some of the divers thatevening and found them first-class food, tastingmuch like goose. We later in the day disturbeda whole colony of these water-birds feeding onthe carcase of a large stag in the river, and thesmell was very strong for some distance.

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