. Evidence as to man's place in nature . all find that a voyager of a hundredyears later date speaks of the name ? Boggoe, as applied toa great Ape, by the inhabitants of quite another partof Africa—Sierra Leone. But I must leave this question to be settled by philologersand travellers; and I should hardly have dwelt so long uponit except for the curious part played by this word Pongd inthe later history of the man-like Apes. The generation which succeeded Battell saw the first of theHomo Sijlveftns. man-likc Apes which was ranff u anq -^•=^T^^^ g^gj. brought to Europc, or, at any rate, whose
. Evidence as to man's place in nature . all find that a voyager of a hundredyears later date speaks of the name ? Boggoe, as applied toa great Ape, by the inhabitants of quite another partof Africa—Sierra Leone. But I must leave this question to be settled by philologersand travellers; and I should hardly have dwelt so long uponit except for the curious part played by this word Pongd inthe later history of the man-like Apes. The generation which succeeded Battell saw the first of theHomo Sijlveftns. man-likc Apes which was ranff u anq -^•=^T^^^ g^gj. brought to Europc, or, at any rate, whose visit founda historian. In the thirdbook of Tulpius Observa-tiones Medicse, publishedin 1641, the 56th chapteror section is devoted to whathe calls Satyrus indicus, called by the IndiansOrang-autang, or Man-of-the Woods, and by the Afri-cans Quoias Morrou. Hegives a very good figure,evidently from the life, ofFig. 2.—The Orang of Tulpius, 1641. the specimen of this animal, nostra memoria ex Angola delatum, presented to Trederick. 8 Henry Prince of Orange Tulpius says it was as big as achild of three years old, and as stout as one of six years: andthat its back was covered with black hair. It is plainly ayoung Chimpanzee. In the meanwhile, the existence of other, Asiatic, man-likeApes became known, but at first in a very mythical Bontius (1658) gives an altogether fabulous and ridi-culous account and figure of an animal which he calls Orang-outang; and though he says, vidi Ego cujuseffigiem hie exhibeo, the said etfigies (see fig. 6 for Hoppiuscopy of it) is nothing but a very hairy woman of rathercomely aspect, and with proportions and feet wholly judicious English anatomist, Tyson, was justified in say-ing of this description by Bontius, I confess I do mistrustthe whole representation. It is to the last mentioned writer, and his coadjutorCovvper, that we owe the first account of a man-like apewhich has any pretensions to scientific accuracy and com
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