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The Orang-Outang in this part of Nwrrnu! is much large:
than either the or (TAwo?/, is the accounts of the_
natives may be relied on; for 1 do not find that any of them
have been been by the White Inhabitants on this coasb, who
never penetrate far into the woods. These animals, in all the
difserent languages os the natives, are called by names
fignisying a Wild Man. They are reprefented by the
as being near five seet in height, maintaining an ere&position,
and having a human sorm, thinly covered with ihort black
hair ; but I suspecb that their height has been augmented by
the fears of the hn/Mzza, who greatly dread them, and
insbantly Ry as boon as one is discovered, so that none of them
have ever been taken alive, much less any attempts made for
taming them. The relate many fabulous Tories os
these animals; and, like the inhabitants of N/hzra and the
Eh/?, albert, that they will attack the males, and raviih the
females of the human fpecies.
The Ape, here called a Quato, is large, and covered all
ever with long black hail*, except the sace, which is bald,
and wrinkled. The ears are large, and of a human form,
the eyes deeply sunk in their orbits, and the nose very much
yesembling that os a Negro, but smaller. The body is near
two feet in length, and round the thorax about eighteen
inches in circumference.. They have neither beard nor tail.
These animals are frequently tamed, and in all their actions
demonsbrate an uncommon degree of art and dexterity, not
without a mixture of thatmifchievous sagacity sor which they
are remarkable. When their hands or fore seet are tied behind
the back, they wiil walk and run in an erecb poAtion for $
whole day, with the same ease and familiarity as though they
were in their natural poshire. When one os these animals is
beat, he immediately runs and climbs a lemon or orange tree;
and, is heispursu-ed, will pick the lemons and oranges, and
drop them on the head of the pursuer, and even endeavour
to repel him by voiding his excrements upon him, at the same
time making a variety of grimaces, and aßuming a thousand
ridiculous attitudes, which afford no sniall diverAon to the
ipeAators.
The Howling Baboons, as they are here called, seem tc
be the animals which are called by the natives of
Guereba. They are of the sixe of a fox, covered with Rne
smooth hair, of a Alining black, except on tbe legs, where
it is os a browniAichesnut colour. The visageof thisanimai
316
The Orang-Outang in this part of Nwrrnu! is much large:
than either the or (TAwo?/, is the accounts of the_
natives may be relied on; for 1 do not find that any of them
have been been by the White Inhabitants on this coasb, who
never penetrate far into the woods. These animals, in all the
difserent languages os the natives, are called by names
fignisying a Wild Man. They are reprefented by the
as being near five seet in height, maintaining an ere&position,
and having a human sorm, thinly covered with ihort black
hair ; but I suspecb that their height has been augmented by
the fears of the hn/Mzza, who greatly dread them, and
insbantly Ry as boon as one is discovered, so that none of them
have ever been taken alive, much less any attempts made for
taming them. The relate many fabulous Tories os
these animals; and, like the inhabitants of N/hzra and the
Eh/?, albert, that they will attack the males, and raviih the
females of the human fpecies.
The Ape, here called a Quato, is large, and covered all
ever with long black hail*, except the sace, which is bald,
and wrinkled. The ears are large, and of a human form,
the eyes deeply sunk in their orbits, and the nose very much
yesembling that os a Negro, but smaller. The body is near
two feet in length, and round the thorax about eighteen
inches in circumference.. They have neither beard nor tail.
These animals are frequently tamed, and in all their actions
demonsbrate an uncommon degree of art and dexterity, not
without a mixture of thatmifchievous sagacity sor which they
are remarkable. When their hands or fore seet are tied behind
the back, they wiil walk and run in an erecb poAtion for $
whole day, with the same ease and familiarity as though they
were in their natural poshire. When one os these animals is
beat, he immediately runs and climbs a lemon or orange tree;
and, is heispursu-ed, will pick the lemons and oranges, and
drop them on the head of the pursuer, and even endeavour
to repel him by voiding his excrements upon him, at the same
time making a variety of grimaces, and aßuming a thousand
ridiculous attitudes, which afford no sniall diverAon to the
ipeAators.
The Howling Baboons, as they are here called, seem tc
be the animals which are called by the natives of
Guereba. They are of the sixe of a fox, covered with Rne
smooth hair, of a Alining black, except on tbe legs, where
it is os a browniAichesnut colour. The visageof thisanimai