472 Dr. Harwoop on a Pair of hinder Hands 
Captain Anderson, tó obtain further information on the subject, 
a great many other curiosities were shown to me, for which he 
had been indebted to the munificence of the same chief.—1t 
now then becomes necessary to point out more especially what 
I conceive to be thc peculiar claims of these specimens to our 
attention. 
Though very materially shrunk in bulk, from a styptic solu- 
tion in which they have been preserved, they are, in the first 
place, even at present, larger than any similar specimens of 
which I have seen any well-authenticated description : for while 
Dr. Abelin his highly interesting account of the gigantic Orang 
Otang, killed at Ramboom in Sumatra, which he computes to 
have measured 7 feet 6 inches in height, states it to have had 
hinder hands which measured 14 inches in length,—these spe- 
cimens extend no less than 15 inches and a quarter. Notwith- 
standing considerable contraction in their circumference over 
the knuckles, they still exceed the admeasurement of his more 
recent specimens by a quarter of an inch, being 10 inches, 
while the middle toe of ours, from the knuckle, exceeds his by 
an inch and three-quarters, being the enormous length of 7 
inches and three-quarters. The length from the metatarsal 
bone of the fore-finger to the end of the thumb, which is placed 
at nearly right angles to it, is 5 inches and a half; and from the 
outer edge of the metatarsus to the end of the thumb, 9 inches. 
The circumference of the thumb at its extremity is no less 
than 3 inches and a quarter, and that of the tarsus 11 inches. | 
The second circumstance worthy of notice is the fact that - 
the thumbs are each destitute of a nail, but they have a hard- 
ened protuberance in its place: and thirdly, their upper surface 
is covered more or less thickly, as far as the last joint of the 
fingers, with red ferruginous-coloured hair, which about the 
ankle is several inches in length. The coarse and thick cuticle 
: which 
