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being the " Pongo," by the fact that it is black 

 and not dun, to say nothing of the important cir- 

 cumstance already mentioned that it still retains 

 the name of " Engeko," or " Enche-eko/' by which 

 Battell knew it. 



In seeking for a specific name for the " Enge- 

 ena," however, Dr. Savage wisely avoided the 

 much misused "Pongo"; but finding in the 

 ancient Periplus of Hanno the word " Gorilla ' 

 applied to certain hairy savage people, discovered 

 by the Carthaginian voyager in an island on the 

 African coast, he attached the specific name 

 " Gorilla " to his new ape, whence arises its pres- 

 ent well-known appellation. But Dr. Savage, more 

 cautious than some of his successors, by no means 

 identifies his ape with Hanno's " wild men.'' He 

 merely says that the latter were " probably one of 

 the species of the Orang; " and I quite agree with 

 M. Brulle, that there is no ground for identifying 

 the modern " Gorilla " with that of the Carthagin- 

 ian admiral. 



Since the memoir of Savage and Wyman was 

 published, the skeleton of the Gorilla has been 

 investigated by Professor Owen and by the late 

 Professor Duvernoy, of the Jardin des Plantes, the 

 latter having further supplied a valuable account 

 of the muscular system and of many of the other 

 soft parts: while African missionaries and travellers 

 have confirmed and expanded the account origi- 

 nally given of the habits of this great man-like 



