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Buffon was more fortunate than his great rival. 

 Not only had he the rare opportunity of examin- 

 ing a young Chimpanzee in the living state, but he 

 became possessed of an adult Asiatic man-like Ape 

 — the first and the last adult specimen of any of 

 these animals brought to Europe for many years. 

 With the valuable assistance of Daubenton, Buf- 

 fon gave an excellent description of this creature, 

 which, from its singular proportions, he termed 

 the long-armed Ape, or Gibbon. It is the modern 

 Hytobates lar. 



Thus when, in 1766, Buffon wrote the four- 

 teenth volume of his great work, he was personally 

 familiar with the young of one kind of African 

 man-like Ape, and with the adult of an Asiatic 

 species — while the Orang-Utan and the Mandrill 

 of Smith were known to him by report. Further- 

 more, the Abbe Prevost had translated a good deal 

 of Purchas' " Pilgrims " into French, in his " His- 

 toire generale des Voyages " (1748), and there Buf- 

 fon found a version of Andrew Battell's account 

 of the Pongo and the Engeco. All these data Buf- 

 fon attempts to weld together into harmony in this 

 chapter entitled " Les Orang-outangs ou le Pongo 

 et le Jocko." To this title the following note is 

 appended: — 



" Orang-outang nom de eet animal aux Indes orien- 

 tals : Pongo nom de cet animal a Lowando Province de 

 Congo. 



" Jocko, Enjocko, nom de cet animal ft Congo que nous 

 avons adopts. En est l'article que nous avons retrancheV' 



