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

swallow? I know you do. Just trust to me, that's all. And don't you want about 20 </u Dyak heads >, taken from the head-takers? I know you do. Well, its a job to get them, and we may succeed in getting some, and then again we may not. In your answer to this, please tell me the highest price we can afford to give "per head." They might cost $5. or $10. apiece, as you know a Dyak head prepared </u a la mode > is a mighty rare thing even here. Did you ever see one in a Museum? I never did. A man just arrived from London tells me Jamrach offered him 2 pounds. apiece for some. Now, would you care to invest $100. or $200. in Dyak heads, & if so how many would you want for each hindred dollars. I believe I could get some if you wouldn't mind standing the expense. But I tell you now that if I ever can get any at not more than an average cost of $5. each I shall get some </u sure >, depend upon it.

    I never felt surer of my wages on a

Saturday night than I now feel of getting a lot of Orangs. They've just </u got to come >, for they're in the Sadong country, and all I've got to do is get them. I feel it in my bones that its going to be no fool of a job, no child's play by a long chalk, for the first season is over in the parts where the mias are commonly seen, and they have very likely gone off to more remote parts where more fruit is. I had feared this all along, but there was no help for it. I knew all along that March