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

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Hurrah for the W. N. S. E.! I am told I am the first American Naturalist who has ever visited Borneo, or at least within the memory of the present generation. If any </u have > ever visited Borneo before they kept it so quiet that no one found it out. Well, I shall give them cause to remember we hereafter in one way or another, for contempt is, to me, more acceptable than indifference. Have not called upon His Highness the Rajah as yet, but I saw him as he went down the River this morning at half past zix on his Gun boat, the "Aline." The Rajah likes America I am told because our Gov't was the first of all to recognize his father. Sir James Brook as </u Rajah >.

    On my arrival here the Rajah's arms

opened to receive me and I was received therin ! Fact, as true as I live, and I am still there. Board & lodging $2.00 per day. and very comfortable at that. There are Proboscis monkeys (in limited numbers) within </u 3 miles > of Sarawak quite comata- ble I am told, and I propose tot devote about 4 days to them while waiting for a schooner which is going round to Sadong. Today I couldn't go after monkeys, be- cause I couldn't find a man who knows where they are. Tonight a man arrived who had been sent for by the Resident, and I shall hire him right along to act as guide. Dyak interpreter & regular hunter & collector.