30 THE MAX-LIKE APES. i 



anatomist, have not only confirmed this conclu- 

 sion, but have added many new details.* 



One of the most interesting among the many 

 valuable discoveries made by Dr. Thomas Savage 

 is the fact, that the natives in the Gaboon country 

 at the present day, apply to the Chimpanzee a 

 name — " Enche-eko " — which is obviously identi- 

 cal with the " Engeko " of Battell; a discovery 

 which has been confirmed by all later inquirers. 

 Battell's " lesser monster " being thus proved to 

 be a veritable existence, of course a strong pre- 

 sumption arose that his " greater monster," the 

 " Pongo," would sooner or later be discovered. 

 And, indeed, a modern traveller, Bowdich, had, in 

 1819, found strong evidence, among the natives, 

 of the existence of a second great Ape, called the 

 " Ingena," " five feet high, and four across the 

 shoulders," the builder of a rude house, on the 

 outside of which it slept. 



In 1847, Dr. Savage had the good fortune to 

 make another and most important addition to our 

 knowledge of the man-like Apes; for, being un- 

 expectedly detained at the Gaboon river, he saw in 

 the house of the Eev. Mr. Wilson, a missionary 

 resident there, " a skull represented by the natives 

 to be a monkey-like animal, remarkable for its 



*See "Observations on the external characters and hab- 

 its of the Troglodytes niger, by Thomas X. Savage M. D., 

 and on its organization, by Jeffries Wyman. M. 1).." Bos- 

 ton Journal of Natural History, vol. iv. 1843-4: and 

 "External characters, habits, and osteology of Troglo- 

 dytes Gorilla," by the same authors, ibid. vol. v. 1847. 



