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shooting one that they were females with the orange colored newly born young clinging to their breasts. [[strikethrough]]I[[/strikethrough]]At [[strikethrough]]12[[/strikethrough]] noon I found the Gibbons, a party of several males which were very timid & ran away at once. I followed down hill & separated them & soon after I heard them wailing to each other apparently trying to unite again. [[strikethrough]] A shot[[/strikethrough]] I returned at 3 P.M. with one old ♀ Semnopithecus & a live yg about 1 week old which I found [[strikethrough]]attached[[/strikethrough]] near  here. The young kept up a plaintive call & one old ♀ stayed nearby apparently wishing to assist it but I frightened her away. The rest of the herd some 40, moved away as soon as I shot. Well up the small ravine today I saw a number of maiden-hair leaved palms of large size 40 feet high with bulging trunks like royal palms, 2 feet in diameter. Quite a number