Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1878-08-21)

</u No 23. > Simujan River, Borneo

                                Aug. 21st 1878.
                                Oct 24

My dear Prof Ward:

    Long live the Hornaday Ex-

pedition! ! and never say die! For we've got </u ten orangs > in </u five days >, which is only the beginning of hostilities. I am too wretchedly tired to write you all about it this time, but must at all hazards get off a line to you with the news by the boat that leaves early tomorrow morning. It has been detained 12 hours on purpose to carry this letter to catch this week's steamer. Since sun- rise this morning my two boys & I, with a little Malay assistance ^have^ taken the complete skins & skeletons of 4 Orangs. Last Sunday I shot 3 Orangs and Monday we took the skins & skeletons in spite of the rain. Tuesday (yester- day) I shot 3 more Orangs & caught a young one alive (which died today.) And today 3 dead Orangs were brought me, one by Chinamen, one by Malays, one by Dyaks. So now we have 7 prepared nicely, and three more are laying over until tomorrow. Four of the lot are </u large > and two are larger than any Wallace got, being over 4 ft 2 inches in height, </s Four > Five are medium, and one is a baby. One of the largest ones is </u Simia Morio > , the rest are </u S. Satyrus,>