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Show 10 Pygmie differ'd from a Man and resembled more the Ape and Monkey kind." After a careful survey of the literature of the subject c. taut in his tin1e, our author arrives at the conclu ion that his "Pygmie" is identical neither with the Orangs of Tulpius and Bontius, nor with the Quoias Morrou of Dapper (or rather of Tulpius), the Barr)s of d' Arcos, nor with the Pongo of Bat tell; but that it is a species of ape probably identical with the Pygmies of the Ancients, and, says Tyson, though it "doe so much resemble a Man in many of its parts, more than any of the ape kind, or any other animal in the world, that I know of: yet by no means do I look upon it a the product of a 1nixt generation-'tis a B'rute-Animal ui generi , and a particular species of Ape." The name of" Chimpanzee," by which one of the African Apes is now so well known, appear to have come into u e in the first half of the eighteenth century, but the only important addition made, in that period, to our acquaintance with the man-like apes of Africa i contained in ((A New Voyage to Guinea," by William Smith, which bears the date 1744. In describing the animal of Sierra Leone, p. 51, this writer says :- ((I shall next describe a trange sort of animal, called by the white men in this country Mandrill,* but why it i so called I know not, nor did I ever hear the name before, neither can those who call them so tell, except it be for their near resemblance of a human creature, though nothing at all • "Mandrill'' seems to signify a" man-like ape,'' the word "Drill" or "Dril" having been anciently employed in England to denote nn Ape or Baboon. Thns in the fifth edition of Blount'.' "Glo 'sograpbia, or a Dictionary interpr ting the hard words of whatsoever language now u ed in our refined Engli ·h tongue ... very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read,'' publi ·hed in 1681, I find, "Dril-a stone-cutter' ' tool wherewith he bor s little hol s in marble, &c. Also a large overgrown Ape and Baboon, so called." "Drill'' is u ed in the same sense in Charleton's "Onomnsticon Zoicon,'' 1668. The singular etymology of the word given by Buffon seems hanlly a probable one. 11 like an Ape. Their bodies, when full grown, are as big in circumference as a middle-sized man's- their legs much shorter, and their feet larger; their arms and hands in proportion. The head is monstrously big, and the face broad and flat, without any other hair but the eyebrows ; the nose very small, the mouth wide, and the lips thin. The face, which is covered by a white skin, is monstrously ugly, being FIG. 5.-Facsirnile of William Smith's figure of the" Mandrill,'' 1744. all over wrinkled as with old age; the teeth broad and yellow ; the hands have no more hair than the face, but the same white skin, though all the rest of the body is covered with long black hair, like a bear. They never go upon all· fours, like apes; but cry, when vexed or teased, just like chil ... dren. "When I was at Sherbro, one Mr. Cummerbus, whom I shall have occasion hereafter to mention, made me a present of one of these strange animals, which are called by the natives Boggoe: it was a she-cub, of six months' age, but even then larger than a Baboon. I gave it in charge to one of the slaves, who knew how to feed and nurse it, being a very tender sort of animal; but when ever I went off the deck |