Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — An Interesting Sight. [ARTICLE]

An Interesting Sight.

It is a most interesting sight to watch an orang-outangmake its way through the jungle, writes an African traveler. It walks slowly along the larger branches in a semi-erect attitude, this being apparently caused by the length of its arms and the shortness pf its legs. It invariable selects those branches which intermingle with those of a neighboring tree, on approaching which it stretches out its long aim. and, grasping the boughs opposite,seems first to shake them as if to test their strength, and then deliberately swings itself across to tho next branch, which it walks along as before. It does not jump or spring as monkeys usually do, and never appears to hurry itself unless some real danger presents. Yet, in spite of its apparently slow movements, it gets along far quicker than a person running through the forest be 4 neath.