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on the contrary, are much shorter, and the great 

 toes much smaller in proportion." * And again, 

 " The true Orang, that is to say, that of Asia, that 

 of Borneo, is consequently not the Pithecus, or 

 tail-less Ape, which the Greeks, and especially 

 Galen, have described. It is neither the Pongo 

 nor the Jocko, nor the Orang of Tulpius, nor the 

 Pigmy of Tyson, — it is an animal of a peculiar 

 species, as I shall prove in the clearest manner by 

 the organs of voice and the skeleton in the follow- 

 ing chapters " (/. c. p. 64). 



A few years later, M. Padermaeher, who held 

 a high office in the Government of the Dutch 

 dominions in India, and was an active member 

 of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, pub- 

 lished, in the second part of the Transactions of 

 that Society,! a Description of the Island of 

 Borneo, which was written between the years 1779 

 and 1781, and, among much other interesting 

 matter, contains some notes upon the Orang. 

 The small sort of Orang-Utan, viz. that of Vos- 

 maer and of Edwards, he says, is found only in 

 Borneo, and chiefly about Banjermassing, Mam- 

 pauwa, and Landak. Of these he had seen some 

 fifty during his residence in the Indies; but none 

 exceeded 2J feet in length. The larger sort, often 

 regarded as a chimgera, continues Kadermacher, 

 would perhaps long have remained so, had it not 



* Camper. CEuvres, i., p. 56. 



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