Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1878-08-05)

after being allowed to do Borneo to my hearts content. I tell you the farther I go the brighter things look here, Instead of valuable ^specimens^ </u decreasing > as I approach, the way they used to in that miserable South America, they keep </u increasing. > I hear of new things, which will be of </u great > use to us, things which are not down in the books atall: - for instance, these wild hogs, more like </u deer > than hogs, sometimes 30 inches to 3 ft. height at the shoulders. And here are </u 12 > species of monkeys & apes, & the </u biggest > crocodiles I ever heard of. Why Wallace ought to have his head punched for not telling about all these things. He ought to be ashamed of himself. The </u Mecistops Journeie" > is here - I knew it before, but I was never made to realize it, and sixteen = foot </u Crocodilus porosus > are common as dirt apparently? at any rate the British Resident has the skulls of two kicking about his croquet ground. - too much dam- aged to be of use to us. And I'm told there is a </u Pristis > saw in the Chinese Joss house here seven feet long or thereabouts ! I'm bound to have that if I have to steal it. And I'm also bound to get a 16 - foot crocodile </u if possible > before I leave here, and figure it in the book with a man standing beside it just to show what poor feeble worms of the dust we are, compared with a </s t > really </u big > crock. Just wait till I get over to the upper Sadong where the big crocks are ! And don't you want a lot of nests of the edible