Then the crocodile sometimes tries to seize him, but the mias gets upon him and beats him with his hands and feet, and tears and kills him.
If a python attacks a mias he seizes it with his hands and then bites it, and soon kills it.
He said the mias has no enemies, no animals dare attack it but the crocodile and the python.
He added that he had once seen such a fight and that he believed that the mias is always the victor.
The mias is very strong; there is no animal in the jungle so strong as he.
He introduced his cousin Bassianus before the senate, and, having stationed Mæsa and Soæmias on either hand, adopted him as his child.
For myself, the conflict with the mias seems to be the most dangerous, for the natives in these parts tell stories of how the orang-outang can fight.
From the moment when he dashed into the clearing and faced the mias in the hope of rescuing our young chief we were his friends for life.
Quickly though the warning was given, it came too late to save Tyler from the fury of this strange enemy, for, stung to madness by the pain of his wound, the miasgave vent to a snarl of rage and leapt full upon our hero's shoulders.
Dey ask, den, dat you place yourself at deir head and lead dem, for in attacking de mias allee alone you have shown dat you am brave and strong.
That bite would have been enough for most anyone, but I see the mias give him a squeeze just before he threw him to the ground, and I reckon it jest broke every rib in his body.
Their thoughts wandered to their hunting-grounds and mia-mias on the Murray.
I had an opportunity of seeing the Mias pappan and the Mias kassar in their native woods, and killing one of the former and several of the latter species.
The Mias kassar or Simia morio is of the same color as the Mias pappan, but altogether smaller, and devoid of callosities either on the male or female adults.
Of the many whom I asked respecting them, at different times and in different places, the greater part of their own accord mentioned the difference between the mias pappan and the mias rombi.
The existence of the Mias rombi is vouched by a few natives only, but they were men of intelligence, and well acquainted with the animals in the wild state.
The specimen of the hand of the mias pappan and the head of an adultmias rombi will, I believe, go far to establish the existence of an animal similar to the Pongo of the Count Buffon.
The mias rombi never exceeds four or four and a half feet; his face, unlike the pappan, is long, and his hair redder.
The animal when brought aboard was stated to be the mias rombi, or small sort.
The Mias rombi is represented as unfrequent and rarely to be met with.
In this respect it was woefully deceiving itself; and the slight retreat made by the mias toward the dry land no doubt further misled its assailant.
But they were not so much afraid of them after all; for Saloo admitted that he did not deem the mias pappan so dangerous; and he had ascertained that it was this species of ourang-outang they had encountered.
One kind belly big--belly bad--he call mias lombi.
De gun makee noise--wake oldmias up, an' maybe no killee em.
They now perceived the truth of what Saloo had been telling them: that there is no animal in all Borneo, either in its forests or its rivers, of which the mias feels fear.
They were even congratulating themselves on the chance of thus getting rid of it, when a movement on the part of the mias warned them they were not to be so conveniently disembarrassed of its dangerous proximity.
It was the claws of the miasrasping against the bark.
The words were,-- "It lookee like countly ofmias lombi.
He had heard of such eccentricities on the part of the ourang-outang, and there is a belief among the Dyak hunters that the mias sometimes goes mad, just as men do.
Wallace has recorded, "a female Mias on a durian-tree kept up for at least ten minutes a continuous shower of branches and of the heavy spined fruits as large as 32-pounders, which most effectively kept us clear of the tree she was on.
He added that he had once seen such a fight, and that he believes that the Mias is always the victor.
There could hardly be a greater contrast, and the baby Mias looked more baby-like by the comparison.
As this was the last Mias I shot, and the last time I saw an adult living animal, I will give a sketch of its general habits, and any other facts connected with it.
Only four days afterwards some Dyaks saw another Mias near the same place, and came to tell me.
The country was flooded for a long distance, but so full of trees and stumps that the laden boat could not be got in among them, and if it could have been we should only have frightened the Mias away.
Where the country becomes slightly elevated, and the soil dry, the Mias is no longer to be found.
About ten days after this, on June 4th, some Dyaks came to tell us that the day before a Mias had nearly killed one of their companions.
When this was also nearly ended, a third was added, and shortly after, the lowest branches of the tree were reached, along which the young Dyak scrambled, and soon sent the Mias tumbling down headlong.
They told me the dead Mias was still lying where it had been killed, so I offered them a reward to bring it up to our landing-place immediately, which they promised to do.
The Dyaks say that, when it is very wet, the Mias covers himself over with leaves of pandanus, or large ferns, which has perhaps led to the story of his making a hut in the trees.
On the fourth day, however, we found a Mias feeding on a very lofty Durian tree, and succeeded in killing it, after eight shots.
This was not an easy matter, as the Mias had a knack of selecting places with dense foliage beneath.
The Mias did not move, and I began to fear that after all we should not get him, as it was near evening, and half a dozen more trees would have to be cut down before the one he was on would fall.
On the Orang-Utan, orMias of Borneo, Annals of Natural History, 1856.
As he would not fire, Felix refused to do so, and the mias was left to finish his nap.
I suppose you all know that a mias is an orang-outang," said Louis.
The mias had not the slightest difficulty in keeping his position on the scaly monster's back, as its movements were far too slow to throw him off.
No; say nothing: she is too far on to run back again, and it will be better for her to get on the rock, and she may reach it before the mias can do so.
I watched the tree with greater anxiety even than before, but the mias continued busily employed in plucking fruit and handing it to the young one; as I supposed, teaching him how to open it, and take the best parts.
The mias had all the time been watching us, and perhaps, from seeing so many people together, it thought we were about to attack it.
I will not say that we were not a little anxious lest we might meet a miasor tiger or other wild beast, but we had Merlin as a guard, besides which, we hoped that the frequent firing of the guns had driven them away.
Ursula had stopped at that moment for want of breath, and the mias also seemed to be sitting on a lower branch which he had reached, gazing towards us, as if considering whether the person he saw was coming to attack him.
With horror we saw the mias let go the bough and begin to walk towards us on all fours.
The rest of the party now came up, and a blow from Dick's hatchet deprived the mias of life.
We were now once more quiet, and this induced the mias to remain stationary.
We now hurried out from our shelter, eager to see the injuries which the mias had inflicted on his antagonist.
Some of the trees, with large luscious fruit, had evidently tempted him to come up to this hilly region, as the mias seldom leaves the flat ground, where he spends the night.
Still she managed to run on, while themias continued descending the tree.
The creature expects to make its dinner off the mias; but from what I have heard, the mias will be too clever to be caught by it.
The erratic movements of our guide shortly after leaving the spot where we had shot the Mias had attracted our attention, and the reason of this was shortly evident--he had lost his way!
Nearer to us again are Santubong and Moratabas, and far down the coast the Sadong mountains, the home of the Mias or orang utan of Borneo.
Mr. Hornaday is confident thismias exceeded the height stated by Wallace as the maximum.
His chief regret is that he missed, during his visit to Borneo, the largest mias ever seen on the island.
And in this way the presence of megaloblasts in the pernicious anæmias is to be explained.
We are inclined to the first supposition, since the occurrence in such numbers of nucleated red cells is hardly ever observed in other anæmias of the same severity.
The circumstance, that in certain anæmias the early stages of the nucleated red corpuscles are variously polychromatic, was evidence for this opinion.
Fränkel has recently gone in the same direction, and on the grounds of his experience in acute leukæmias has supported the view of Uskoff, that the lymphocytes are to be regarded as young cells, and early stages of the other leucocytes.
They hold their privileged position amongst the anæmias of the megaloblastic type, only for the reason that their cause is known to us, and can be removed.
Normoblasts are found almost invariably in all severe anæmias that are the result of trauma, inanition or organic disease of some kind.
Hæmatologically, all lymphatic leukæmias are characterised by a great preponderance of lymph cells, in particular of the larger varieties.
In megaloblastic anæmias apparent cures are by no means rare, but sooner or later a relapse occurs, and finally leads with certainty to a lethal issue.
The local anæmias we can at once exclude from our consideration.
We were afraid in attempting to kill the mias that we might shoot the native, when, just as the creature was about to seize the man with its mouth and formidable claws, our friend fired and the animal fell, shot through the heart.
This mias was of the larger species, many being under four feet high, and some of the females not more than three feet six inches.
Mr Blyth and our friend fired; whether they had hit the mias we could not tell, but it began to move away among the higher branches at a rapid rate.
Mr. Wallace, a naturalist, describes how he shot at a mias and broke his arm.
In habits, size, and general appearance, the miasis much like the gorilla, but he is more easily tamed and kept in captivity.
That they had approached so near without being observed was due to the fact that a brawling rapid flowed just there, and the mias was on the other side of the stream.
I have often seen the mias act thus when severely wounded.
Nothing daunted, the mias regained his footing, hauled his victim on to a mudbank, and, jumping on his back began to tear and pommel him.
Then the huge red body of the mias appeared falling through, but it was not dead, for it caught hold of branches as it fell and hung on as long as it could; then it came crashing down, and alighted on its face with an awful thud.
And he has returned the favour to me, for he rescued me once when a mias had got me down and would certainly have killed me, for my gun was empty at the moment, and I had dropped my knife.
It was therefore with much excitement that he learned from a party of bees'-wax hunters, on the second morning of their expedition, that a large male mias had been seen that very day.
He chanced to be standing between themias and the tree.
Our car driver, a not very old man at all, told us he was present himself when a numerous household were brought together to be sworn on the Mias Tighernain for the discovery of a large sum of money which had been stolen.
We told our errand and the Captain went for the Mias Tighernain and placed it in our hands.
Any one swearing falsely on the Mias Tighernain was sure to come to grief.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
