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THE MAN-LIKE APES. 



dom of Congo/' * drawn up from the notes of a 

 Portuguese sailor, Eduardo Lopez, and published 

 in 1598. The tenth chapter of this work is en- 

 titled " De Animalibus quae in hac provincia re- 



- ;v "?^ ; 



Or-LT2- 



Fig. 1. — Simise magnatum deliciae. — De Bry, 1598. 



periuntur," and contains a brief passage to the 

 effect that " in the Songan country, on the banks 

 of the Zaire, there are multitudes of apes, which 

 aiford great delight to the nobles by imitating 



* Regnum Congo: hoc est Vera Descriptio Regni 

 Africani quod tam ab ixcolis qtjam Lusitanis Con- 

 ous APPELiiATUR, per Philippum Pigafettam, olim ex 

 Edoardo Lopez acroamatis lingua Italiea excerpta, num 

 Latio sermone donata ab August. Cassiod. Reinio. Ieoni- 

 bus et imaginibua reruin memorabilium quasi vivis, opera 

 et industria Joan. Theodori et Joan, Israelis de Bry, fra- 

 trum exornata. Lraneofurti, mdxcviii. 



