Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-08

machinery, agricultural i'm plements and
other supplies, and so on, and there were
some thirty passengers on business and
pleasure bent. The voyage was long
story of delight to me. l well remem-
Der the Picturesque scene on reach
ing Singapore. About our YES
sci swarmed canoes and fat-bottom-
ed sampans, whose swqrthy occupants,
with the jargon of Babel, offered fruits
and wares for barter and sale. Here
one could see trading prahu from the
Moluccas, whose every plank, mast,
sail, rope, oar and awning were made
from the cocoanut tree, and whose
whole cargo-oi TO burn at night and
food and ''grog" to consume by day
was all of the same generous and state
ly palm.
We pushed on for Borneo, whose cap
ital, Bruni, or Borneo, we reached In
due time and safely, as we might not
have done a few years earlier, before
Sir James Brooke, the great white
Raiah" Of Sarawak had driven the pi-
ratical and head-hunHng Sea Dyaks
from their haunts with fire and sword
Forty miles up the Sarswak river,
some three hundred miles by sea south
ward OF Bruni, was Kuchin, the capital
OF Rajah Brooke's province OF Sarawak.
Here, after leaving the pile-built Dor
neon Venice" of Bruni, l met and was
Hospitality entertained by the Tuan
Besar C"great MANI, Raiah Brooke
himself, while the st. George was COM
pleting her cargo.
Having few days here and anxious
to explore the interior above Kucbin,
with several Dyak guides In swift
prahu went journey OF several hours
up the river, landing at q point whence
travel would be possible. The time
was short, but / loaded the guides with
specimens and gathered material for
copious notes. Though warned by my
native attendants l often made indie
pendent excursions, and on one OF these
occasions pushing alone into the depths
of the dense tropical forest
after q bird wished to secure
a strangely peculiar sound smote my
ears and l found myself confronted by
several outangs of the great Mas tribe
Of the Indies, the most human like OF
the Simian race. One gigantic male
walking upright and brandishing a
heavy stick used indifferently as staff or
club advanced threatenlngly, gnashing
his teeth and uttering the indescriba-
Bile sound which had first attracted my
attention. l raised my gun to nv
shoulder, but, alasl my last shot had
been fred at the bird. In moment the
weapon was wrested from my grasp and
l was struck senseless by powerful
blow from the Mas.
When partly recovered conscious
ness, bruised and bleeding, l was being
half dragged, half carried, by the
outangs. Attempts to struggle TO my
feet were useless. After what seemed
an age we reached, apparently, Sim
ian community, and never did captive
among American Indians receive more
attention than l. With discordant
cries and uncouth grimaces the ourang-
outangs crowded about me, with
strangely human suggestveness, until
beaten back by my captors. forgot
bodily bruises In my mental anx-
iety. Was to be torn
limb from limb and devoured?
While was in this terrible state OF sus-
pense the older and graver outangs
gathered about me, as II In council,
chatting in turn as IL discussing my
fate. The conference presently broke
up and was again hauled away, .
badly sprained ankle adding to my dis
tress. soon reached spreading tree,
into which was hauled and pushed al
most screaming with agony, and in 3
rude sort OF arbor among its branches /
found myself a prisoner indeed, every
movement closely watched by special
guard set over me, and the single cry
for help uttered being answered by .
savage blow.
Like an Indian captive In some cases,
now seemed to be adopted by this
particular Simian family and TO be
treated with a rude sort OF affection,
especially by young female. who sell
dom stirred from my side. The arbor.
matched with the great leaves OF the
nypa palm. afforded tolerable shelter
from the elements. Water was brought
me in nypa leaves, which drank. and
with WHICH 1 bathed my wounds and
injured ankle, binding the latter with
cocoanut fibre and pieces OF my
clothing, now conveniently In rags.
Food was also brought-the prickly
duriou, the orange-liEe mangosteon
and cocoanuts, which punctured with
- krffa for fhafr MILKY c0nt8nt4
showing my captor how to drink there