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Show I.-ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TilE MAN-LII{E APES. ANCIENT traditions, when tested by the severe processes of modern investigation, commonly enough fade away into mere. dreams : but it is singular how often the dream turns out to have been a half-waking one, presaging a reality. Ovid foreshadowed the discoveries of the geologist: the Atlantis was an imagination, but Columbus found a western world : and though the quaint forms of Centaurs and Satyrs have an existence only in the realms of art, creatures approaching man more nearly than they in essential structure, and yet as thoroughly brutal as the goat's or horse's half of the mythical compound, are now not only known, but notorious. I have not met with any notice of one of these MANLIKE APES of earlier date than that contained in Pigafetta's " Description of the kingdom of Congo,"* drawn up from the notes of a Portuguese sailor, Eduardo Lopez, and published in 1598. The tenth FIG. 1.-Simire magnatum delicire.-De Bry, 1598. chapter of this work is entitled ''De Animalibus qure in hac provincia reperiuu- • REGNUM CONGO: hoc est VERA DESCRIPTIO REGNI AFRICAN! QUOD TAM AB INcous QUAM LusiTANIS CoNous .APPELLATUR1 per Philippum PigaB |