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size, ferocity, and habits." From the contour of the 

 skull, and the information derived from several 

 intelligent natives, " I was induced," says Dr. Sav- 

 age (using the term Orang in its old general sense) 

 " to believe that it belonged to a new species of 

 Orang. I expressed this opinion to Mr. Wilson, with 

 a desire for further investigation; and, if possible, 

 to decide the point by the inspection of a specimen 

 alive or dead." The result of the combined exer- 

 tions of Messrs. Savage and Wilson was not only 

 the obtaining of a very full account of the habits 

 of this new creature, but a still more important 

 service to science, the enabling the excellent 

 American anatomist already mentioned, Professor 

 Wyman, to describe, from ample materials, the 

 distinctive osteological characters of the new form. 

 This animal was called by the natives of the Gaboon 

 " Enge-ena," a name obviously identical with the 

 " Ingena " of Bowdich; and Dr. Savage arrived at 

 the conviction that this last discovered of all the 

 great Apes was the long-sought " Pongo " of Bat- 

 tell. 



The justice of this conclusion, indeed, is beyond 

 doubt — for not only does the " Enge-ena " agree 

 with Battell's " greater monster ' in its hollow 

 eyes, its great stature, and its dun or iron-grey 

 colour, but the only other man-like Ape which 

 inhabits these latitudes — the Chimpanzee — is at 

 once identified, by its smaller size, as the "lesser 

 monster," and is excluded from any possibility of 



