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We should have gone down like an open boat."
"And after you left the Mauritius your destination was--"
"Borneo, Sumatra, the Malay Archipelago."
"But what were you seeking in the Malay Archipelago?"
"What does one ever seek? One seeks, no matter what; and, not being
able to see you, Evelyn, I thought I would try to see everything in
the world."
"But there is nothing to see in Borneo?"
"Well, you will laugh when I tell you, but it seemed to me that I'd
like to see the orang-outang in his native forests. I had been to
Greece, and I knew the Italian Renaissance--"
"And after so much art to see an orang-outang in a tree would be a
new experience, Owen."
"Soon there will be no more higher apes, if medical science continues
to progress; no more gorillas or chimpanzees."
"In a world without gorillas life will not be worth living. I quite
understand."
Owen laughed.
"I should be sorry for anything to disappear. The poor mother is
speared, for she will fight for her little one; ugly as he may be in
our eyes he is beautiful in hers."
"But you didn't do this, Owen?"
"No; after two or three days in a forest one wearies of it; and after
all it wasn't very likely that I should have got a snapshot.
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