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The Malay Archipelago
Volume I. (of II.)

CHAPTER IV
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The dimensions given by other naturalists closely agree with mine.

The largest Orang measured by Temminck was 4 feet high.

Of twenty-five specimens collected by Schlegel and Muller, the largest old male was 4 feet 1 inch; and the largest skeleton in the Calcutta Museum was, according to Mr.Blyth, 4 feet 1 1/2 inch.
My specimens were all from the northwest coast of Borneo; those of the Dutch from the west and south coasts; and no specimen has yet reached Europe exceeding these dimensions, although the total number of skins and skeletons must amount to over a hundred.
Strange to say, however, several persons declare that they have measured Orangs of a much larger size.

Temminck, in his Monograph of the Orang, says that he has just received news of the capture of a specimen 5 feet 3 inches high.

Unfortunately, it never seems to have a reached Holland, for nothing has since been heard of any such animal.


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