CHAPTER XV.
HUNTING THE GREAT MAN-MONKEY.
Although Professor Verkimier had promised to return at once, he was compelled to encamp in the forest, being overtaken by night before he could reach the river and procure a boat.
Next morning they started at daybreak.

The country over which they passed had again changed its character and become more hilly.

On the summits of many of the hills Dyak villages could be seen, and rice fields were met with as they went along.

Several gullies and rivulets were crossed by means of native bamboo bridges, and the professor explained as he went along the immense value of the bamboo to the natives.

With it they make their suspension bridges, build their houses, and procure narrow planking for their floors.