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The Malay Archipelago
Volume I. (of II.)

CHAPTER IV
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A flattened bullet was found in his tongue, having entered the lower part of the abdomen and completely traversed the body, fracturing the first cervical vertebra.

Yet it was after this fearful wound that he had risen, and begun climbing with considerable facility.

This also was a full-grown male of almost exactly the same dimensions as the other two I had measured.
On June 21st I shot another adult female, which was eating fruit in a low tree, and was the only one which I ever killed by a single ball.
On June 24th I was called by a Chinaman to shoot a Mias, which, he said, was on a tree close by his house, at the coal-mines.

Arriving at the place, we had some difficulty in finding the animal, as he had gone off into the jungle, which was very rocky and difficult to traverse.

At last we found him up a very high tree, and could see that he was a male of the largest size.


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