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Show 1905.J NOMENCLATURE OF THE ANTHROPOID ArES. 71 the-woods- the Orang- which had filtered to Europe through India and the Levant, and the Arab sea-borne trade from Sumatra; but Pongo is an African word originally applied to the Chimpanzee, and in all probability derived from the Bantu dialects of Angola, south of the Congo. The proper spelling of this word is Mpongo, and it is a root which, in varying forms, is found in a number of Bantu dialects and languages in Western and Equatorial Africa, and vised to indicate either a chimpanzee or a big baboon*. I have not got access to various old books at the time of writing, but I think I am correct in saying that English and Dutch travellers on the W e s t Coast of Africa in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries referred to the Chimpanzee as " Pongo." I also fancy that the same allusion and the same name are made use of by Buffon. A s in zoological nomenclature the preference is for the adoption of a Latin or Greek name, it is a pity to introduce into our lists a barbarous word in preference to one derived from either of the classical languages. But when in addition an African word is taken as the name of an East Asiatic genus, then the choice is singularly inappropriate. * It may be of interest to add tlie names for " Chimpanzee" in a number of African languages, mostly collected by myself:- Language. District. W ord fob Chimpanzee. Temne.............................. Sierra Leone ....................................Ka-fuka (Ka- is sing. prefix). Vai.................................. Western Liberia .......................... ..Ibulu. Busi .............................. North-western Liberia.................. ..Guru. Mandingo ...................... North of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Iburu. and Ivory Coast. Kpwesi .......................... Central Liberia ................................Ibulu. Gora .............................. St. Paul's River, West Central Onyi. Liberia. 13asa and De.................. Coast of Central Liberia .............. .. Ibe. Kru and Grebo.............. Southern Liberia .......................... ...Tuawe Yoruba .......................... Interior of Lagos .......................... ...Obo. I jo languages.................. Brass, Bonny, Niger Delta .......... ..Tele. Ibo .................................. Lower Niger .....................................Ozodimba. JZJik .............................. Old Calabar .................................. .. Idiok. I mo] l> Ikuii, and | Lower Cross River ...................... Akuna-kuna .............. ) Enop1 or Enowi. Nki .............................. Extreme Upper Cross River ...... Boki. Mbudikum .................. Sources of Cross River, N.E. of Apu or Epfu. Cameroon s. Barondo and Isubu...... North Cameroons Coast .............. Ewaka. Mpongwe ...................... Gaboon .......................................... Ntyege and Nchego; also Nkulu. Kongo .......................... Lower Congo and Congo Coast ... Mpongi. Kimbundu...................... Angola (south of Lower Congo) ... Mpongo. [#*=* The origin of the name " Pongo," of Buffon and others.] Kiwemba [or Bembci] ... South-west of Tanganyika .......... Koroe. Ki-guha.......................... West Tanganyika.......................... Tolue. Kabwari ...................... North-west Tanganyika .............. Soko. Manyema ...................... West of Tanganyika and extreme Soko. Upper Congo. Ruanda .......................... North of Tanganyika .................. Enjangwe. Kijipa .......................... East Coast, Tanganyika .............. Isike. Lu-ganda ...................... West and North Coast of Victoria Edzike or Izike. Nyanza. |