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Among the delights in this book are the many vignettes and miniature histories that punctuate the narrative—the socioeconomic significance of the stiff white golilla collar in Philip IV’s bankrupt court, the establishment of the Stuyvesant Institute in New York and the circumstances of the first world boxing title.

Singapo tiga not so dang’lous as mias—he not common kind, but gleat mias lombi—what Poltugee people callee ‘led golilla.’

He no half dang’lous like oolang-ootang led golilla.”

Notwithstanding the patois of his speech, what Saloo said was well enough understood by his companions, for in the led golilla or oolang-ootang of his peculiar pronunciation, they recognised the long known and world-renowned ape of Borneo, which, although safe enough when seen inside the cage of the showman, is a creature to be dreaded—at least the species spoken of—when encountered in its native haunts, the forests of Sumatra and Borneo.

Some call him oolang-ootang, some say led golilla.