[The Malay Archipelago Volume I. (of II.) by Alfred Russell Wallace]@TWC D-Link bookThe Malay Archipelago Volume I. (of II.) CHAPTER IV 55/58
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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