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Show C\46 E PLANATIONS OJ? 1tfONKEY OTTART. abr;ont in the eastern: Celebes and Timor b ing the most enstor1y isles producincr monkeys, and these only Macacos and Cynocephali. II nc , tho anthropoid apes, high st of tho series, arc mot with only whet·o Tolingan, Malay, and Negl'illo rae s dwell: n ither those, not: oven the lower monkey-forms, being encountered amid tho bomes of Papouas, IIarfo l'ians,-far Jo s of Au~:~tralians. Now, what is ssentially noteworthy, if depressions of tomr orature may explain why th<~ nat.ul'al limit of the monkey-range does not extend itself ontsitle of our ulacl lin of circumvallation elsewhere, such explanation Las no force h re. Its cause is inherent in some other law of nature. HUMAN HEADS IN MONKEY CHART. (Figs. A, B, 0, D, E, F.) ITtwing sketohod, in the preceding pn.ges, tho relative positions of 54 ''species" of the limiadw, out of some 216 known, amid tho zone rtppointed for them by Nttlut·o; I pti~H onward in the endcnvor to indicate to tho reader, through six human lleada, tho ~crt of types co-resident wiUt monkeys within tho sr1mo geogruphicn.l area. 1-'hesc six bonds, howoYer, can merely sol'Ve n.s mnemonics; becauRo, had ~p~tco permitted, nnd did wo possc ~s the pot·trn. itt; of numbet·less races with which wo nrc acquainted solely through dcsc ript.i o n~, i\ would not huve been a dil:licttlt matter to draw, on tho sn.me spot occupied by oaeh qundrumane, a bimtmo illusb:ative of singular cot·rospondenoes; nnd then tho oye could luwe perceived tlu1t the colomtions of the human skin, within this self-snmc zono, nre almost as vnl'icd, and as diverse from cnoh other, n.s tho forms nnd colors of tho monkey tt·ihos nrc 11ow therein soon to bo dift'erent. This cxpel'imont may, in tho futuro, be tried by otltm·s. ln tho meanwhile, tho letters placed bonoath servo to indicn.to tho habitat of each of thostl six individuals, whose likenesses aro very roughly trn.cod. REFlHtENCES AND EXPLANA'fiONS. A.-AMERICAN. "Puru-J>mu" nation. (SPtx and MARTIUH, liei •e in JJrazilien:-colorcd by D•: 0AST£1.!1AU, .AmC•iqru dt1 Nu<l, "1'1. XIX. Ciliotny. fumoux chef do Cbcrontcs qui n long l<tmps u6sol6 lu pro\'lnco do Ooyuz. • * '' llotuiL anthropo]lbngo."J To convince oneself of tho untold varieties of these South Amol'icttn moo~<,ace lh: CAS'!'J,JLNAU (passim); .A um•. 81'. HrJ~AILtJ•: (Rio de Janeiro, L, pp. 424.- 7; l I, P.P· 40-57,.187-231); D'OttnJONY ( Voy., AtlnH); J)l.:ulll·:1' ( Voy. Pit tor. rw Brls~l, fol., Pn.rts, 1884, H, and platcH) ;-especinlly ltUO}JNDAS ( Voy. P·ittor. au Brls1l, trans!. Golborry, P•u·i R, fol., 18:38, l1, "portmi ts ct co~t tuuo~," pp. 2- a J) ; and DAuwrN, WILBON, ~tncll1 rrznoy (Su1·veyi11g Voyages of H. M.S. "At.lventuro" nnd "Dongle"- London, 8vo, 1829- II, pp. 120-82; uppeudix, pp. 185-..11); III, pp. 519-33). B.-WEST AFRICAN. "N~gre de la ctJte d' Or"- in Brazil. [CnOJUH, op. cit., llv. 7m', Pi. VI: -colored by <.lc•crlptlonsln Huo&NDA8. See Ulmptcr V, supra, pp. 54.5- 6. • E X P L A N A l' I 0 N S 0 1!' M 0 N KEY C ll A H 'l'. 647 0. -EAST AFRICAN. " JJ[ozambique" negro, in B1·azil. [DEllltET, op. cit., n, Pl. 37 -" diiToronloa nullons nogrcs," fig. 8: -colored from his tlt•scrlpllons (pp. ll<l- 16); us compured with some or D• ~·uonERVJLLE'B cusla, and with Cnorus's uccounls, Jlv. 1", pl. lll, &c.J SAJ.1' (Voyage to Aby88i11iu, London, 4Lo, 1814, pp. 83-41) spoke about Ure JJforv'ou negroes on tlmt cortst u.s" of tho u gl i e~ t description, having hi gh che~kbones, thick lips, small knots of woolly hrdr like peppercorns otr thoir ltcadH, nnd skins of n deep, shiniug b!ttck :" and ngtdn, thnt the JJfakooa, JJJakoocma, who rne negroes, and not Kaffrs (on Arabic term, only moaning "infidel"), whil tit possessing excessive deformity, nml ferocity of visnge and charueters, did not possess nny n~tmo for "God" except wlterimb, meaniug tho "sky,"- n11y more thnn did the JJfonjous themselves, nmong whom "molungo" signified both Ooo nnd 8ky. Compare Tt;p ea of Afanki11d, pp. 609-10. D.- SOUTH AFRICAN. "Hottentot Venu8." (From n phologrnph by M. Rousscnu-6'a!erit .Antllropologiqut, Poria-of hor colnrod full·elzo o•eL In tlwt )1usoum.] Compttro hor portraits in Cuvum's fol. JJ[ammif~rea; and my remarks, 8upra, pp. 628-0. E. -MALAYAN. "Serebis Dyak." (MAnnYATT, JJornen and tile Indian .A•·clu')Mlago, London 8vo, 1848, Pl. 70 :-tlulcd "coppor-col~rQJ," OJ>. cit., pp. 6, 78.j My brother William, long stationed nt Saruwak (supra, p. 685), tolls mo tJtat it is t.~n oxcollent sample. F.- "BISAYA sauva!Je, ou des montagne&." [blALJ.AT, J>ldlippin<s, Atlas.""'] Compnre the observations of CnAMTSSO (in VoN KO'I'ZF.DUE's Voy. "Rm·iok," II, pp. 851-98); nnd of L1~SSON and GARNOT (in DuPJ.JUl\t>V, Voy. "Coq uill~, " PrtriH, 8vo., 1826; "Zoologic," T, pp. 8-106). 620 l'he homines cnudati h~tv o been nh·eady treated upon (s11J11'a, hap. V, pp. 458-9 nntc>< ] 88-4). MAI.r.A.'l' (Lea Philippine8, p. 129) noit.hor believes in ther.n, not· in the rcpor·tcd unions between humnn and aHtlrropohl geuem; on which l3LUMENJJAOII (.De Omni~ lltHHoni varietate, p . l 0) indi grntutly wr·ote "Jlybl'idrt human!\ n~gantur·," whilo Vnu:y (lfist. Naturel/t• du Genre llumain, 182'1, Ill, p. 491, &c. &c.) denies that such experiment lms been fuirly tried. ll~t(! not n.n nccomtt of tho "Orn.ug-Kubu," and of tho "Oro.ng-Gugrlr," been ron.d befon· the Amoricau Gcogt•rtphicalrwd Strttistioal Society of New York, and received \he Sooioty'~ "imprimatur" iu pttmphlet form (Report "on the Ettst Indi~tn Arcbipclttgo; nnd n d ~c rip tion of the Wild Itn.cos of men," Now York, 1854), I should h~tve as litLlo tlltred to refer to Capt. W11lter M. Oibson's most cnchrtnting atlvooturos (1'he P1'1'son of Welteverdcn; and a gfa11ce at the East Jndi1111 A1·chipelago, Now York, 1855, pp. 120-3, 180- 2), ns to h~tve cited, on Aft·iean qneHtionH, my friend Mr. Drnntz Mn.yer's entertaining" CAPTAlN CANO'J' ." A ~ it is, the respon sibility of publication, in the former on.so, reposes entirely upon Ia c1·itiqur of tho honorn.blc hi sto ri~tn a, divines, ln.wyot·s, doctors, nnd merchant-princes, who in council assembled to hoM· tho Captain's eloquent address, on tho 24th Mrn·ch, 1855, at tho Nuw York UniverPity. As I receive it, so I pnss it on: with tho more remark tlmt, tho nutl1011lic descriptions science poHscsscs of real men- tho Orang-bmua, to wit- in l\1alnynuu, hnv~, quito suflici ently for my nnthropoid analogies, brought down humnnity, in thut Arclripolngo, to a grndo not mnny removes from the rubescent Oraug-tttaus ,· so thnt, should l\lr. P. T. Barnum ever bo so hLCky ns to import for his Museum alive specimen of tho gouus "Omng" (Malnyicll man), like that one figured by Crtpt. Oil>son iu wood-cut on ptLp;c 180, I Hlutll thankfully ~tccopt.,-just as I should bo cqun.lly gl~td to sec ono of i\1. d' AuoAnt~o~'s "DokkoM" (PniOIIAUO, Nat. Ilisl., p. 800)-such 1\ wonderful "confirmation" (not to mcutiou nbo sundry dw(lrf "Aztec child ron ") par de88US le marcM. |