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"I went up and down all the rivers of Sarawak in a sampan with an English gentleman who was crocodiles, monkeys, mias, snakes, and birds picking up." "Wrong!" exclaimed Morris. "You know better than that, Achang." The native repeated the reply, putting the verb where it ought to be. "He was a naturalist," added Louis. "Yes; that was what they called him in the town."
Of course I can get a substitute if you refuse, and that substitute may, after a little time, satisfy the impatient children, who flatten their noses against the window-panes and long for Mias Pauline every day of their meagre lives. But I fear the substitute will never be Polly! Why not spend the winter with us, and do this lovely work, keeping up other studies if you are strong enough?
"No, no, my child," she shouted out; "I will wait till he come nearer." Our position was truly a dreadful one, for the creature might in a few minutes have destroyed the good Frau, and then come and attacked us if it had been so disposed. We were now once more quiet, and this induced the mias to remain stationary. I wondered why Merlin had not come.
Grace, who was far more timid than Emily, had stood transfixed, as it were, to the ground, unable to advance or fly. The rest of the party now came up, and a blow from Dick's hatchet deprived the mias of life. "I suppose he good for dinner," observed Potto Jumbo, surveying him. "I cut steak out of him before we go away." "Out on you for a cannibal!" exclaimed Tarbox, with a look of horror.
"You've not much chance of him now," remarked the hermit, as they all stood in a group gazing up into the tree-top. "I have often seen the mias act thus when severely wounded. He is making a nest to lie down and die in." "Zen ve must shoot again," said the professor, moving round the tree and looking out for a sign of the animal.
The Dyaks say that, when it is very wet, the Mias covers himself over with leaves of pandanus, or large ferns, which has perhaps led to the story of his making a hut in the trees. The Orang does not leave his bed until the sun has well risen and has dried up the dew upon the leaves. He feeds all through the middle of the day, but seldom returns to the same tree two days running.
"We's allers ready to fight in a good cause," remarked Moses, just before filling his mouth with rice. "Or to die in it!" added Verkimier, engulfing the breast of a chicken at a bite. "But as zee pirates are not expected for some days, ve may as vell go after zee mias zat is what zee natifs call zee orang-utan. It is a better word, being short."
It probably bites off a few of these first, and then, making a small hole, tears open the fruit with its powerful fingers. The Mias rarely descends to the ground, except when pressed by hunger, it seeks succulent shoots by the riverside; or, in very dry weather, has to search after water, of which it generally finds sufficient in the hollows of leaves.
Sport in Borneo The Orang-Utan His Habits Start for Sadong A Rough Journey Sadong The Fort and Village L. Capsized The Mines Our Cook The Abang Start for Mias Ground Our Hunt for Orang Lost in the Forest Leave for Sadong An Uncomfortable Night Small-Pox Manangs A Dyak Don Juan Return to Kuching.
He said: "The Mias has no enemies; no animals dare attack it but the crocodile and the python. He always kills the crocodile by main strength, standing upon it, pulling open its jaws, and ripping up its throat. If a python attacks a Mias, he seizes it with his hands, and then bites it, and soon kills it. The Mias is very strong; there is no animal in the jungle so strong as he."
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