Depends on de inside ob my nose an' de state ob de wedder." What the professor would have replied we cannot say, for just then a Dyak youth rushed in to say that an unusually large and gorgeous butterfly had been seen just outside the village! No application of fire to gunpowder could have produced a more immediate effect.

The professor's rice was scattered on the floor, and himself was outside the head-house before his comrades knew exactly what was the matter.
"He's always like that," said the hermit, with a slight twinkle in his eyes.

"Nothing discourages--nothing subdues him.

Twice I pulled him out of deadly danger into which he had run in his eager pursuit of specimens.

And he has returned the favour to me, for he rescued me once when a mias had got me down and would certainly have killed me, for my gun was empty at the moment, and I had dropped my knife." "Is, then, the orang-utan so powerful and savage ?" "Truly, yes, when wounded and driven to bay," returned the hermit.