. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. gua Italica excerpta,num Latio sermone donata ab August. Cassiod. Reinio. Iconibus et imag-inibus rerum memorabilium quasi vivis, opera et industria Joan. Theodoriet Joan, Israelis de Bry, fratrum exornata. Francofurti, mdxcviii. MANS PLACE IN NATURE apes are as much j&gments of the imagination of the ingeniousbrothers as the winged, two-legged, crocodile-headed dragon whichadorns the same plate; or, on the other hand, it may be that theartists have constructed their drawings from some essentiallyfaithful description of a Gorilla or a
. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. gua Italica excerpta,num Latio sermone donata ab August. Cassiod. Reinio. Iconibus et imag-inibus rerum memorabilium quasi vivis, opera et industria Joan. Theodoriet Joan, Israelis de Bry, fratrum exornata. Francofurti, mdxcviii. MANS PLACE IN NATURE apes are as much j&gments of the imagination of the ingeniousbrothers as the winged, two-legged, crocodile-headed dragon whichadorns the same plate; or, on the other hand, it may be that theartists have constructed their drawings from some essentiallyfaithful description of a Gorilla or a Chimpanzee., And, ineither case, though these figures are worth a passing notice, theoldest trustworthy and definite accounts of any animal of thiskind date from the 17th century, and are due to an Englishman. The first edition of that most amusing old book, Purchas hisPilgrimage, was published in 1613, and therein are to be foundmany references to the statements of one whom Purchas termsAndrew Battell (my neere neighbour, dwelling at Leigh in Essex). Fig. 1.—Simise magnatum delicise.—De Bry, 1598. who served under Manuel Silvera Perera, Governor under theKing of Spaine, at his city of Saint Paul, and with him wentfarre into the countrey of Angola ; and again, my friend, An-drew Battle, who lived in the kingdom of Congo many yeares,and who, upon some quarrell betwixt the Portugals (among whomhe was a sergeant of a band) and him, lived eight or nine mbnethsin the woodes. Erom this weatherbeaten old soldier, Purchas wasamazed to hear ^ of a kinde of Great Apes, if they might so betermed, of the height of a man, but twice as bigge in feature oftheir limmes, with strength proportionable, hairie all over, other-wise altogether like men and women in their whole bodily shape.* ♦Except this that their legges had no calves.—[Ed. 1626.] And in a marginal note, These great apes are called Pongos. NATUKAL, HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES 3 Tliey lived on sucli wilde fruits as the tree
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