26 THE MAN-LIKE APES. i 



Prince of Orange, and which I saw only on the 

 27th of June, 1784, was more than four feet high. 

 I examined this skeleton again on the 19th De- 

 cember, 1785, after it had been excellently put to 

 rights by the ingenious Onymus." 



It appears evident, then, that this skeleton, 

 which is doubtless that which has always gone by 

 the name of Wurmb's Pongo, is not that of the 

 animal described by him, though unquestionably 

 similar in all essential points. 



Camper proceeds to note some of the most im- 

 portant features of this skeleton; promises to de- 

 scribe it in detail by-and-bye; and is evidently in 

 doubt as to the relation of this great " Pongo *' to 

 his " petit Orang." 



The promised further investigations were never 

 carried out; and so it happcnc-d that the Pongo of 

 Von Wurmb took its place by the side of the Chim- 

 panzee, Gibbon, and Orang as a fourth and colossal 

 species of man-like Ape. And indeed nothing 

 could look much less like the Chimpanzees or the 

 Orangs, then known, than the Pongo; for all the 

 specimens of Chimpanzee and Orang which had 

 been observed were small of stature, singularly 

 human in aspect, gentle and docile; while Wurmb's 

 Pongo was a monster almost twice their size, of 

 vast strength and fierceness, and very brutal in 

 expression; its great projecting muzzle, armed with 

 strong teeth, being further disfigured by the out- 

 growth of the cheeks into fleshy lobes. 



