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THE MAX-LIKE APES. 



the first of the man-like Apes which was ever 

 brought to Europe, or, at any rate, whose visit 

 found a historian. In the third book of Tulpius' 

 " Observations MedicaB," published in 16-11, the 

 56th chapter or section is devoted to what he calls 

 Saiyrus indicus, " called by the Indians Orang- 



jFTcmo SyTveftris. 

 Orcrntj Outang. 



Fig. 2.— The Orang of Tulpius, 1641. 



autang or Man-of-the-Woods, and by the Africans 

 Quoias Morrou." He gives a very good figure, evi- 

 dently from the life, of the specimen of this ani- 

 mal, "nostra memoria ex Angola delatum," pre- 

 sented to Frederick Henry Prince of Orange. Tul- 

 pius says it was as big as a child of three years old, 



