THE MAN-LIKE APES. 23 



originem a china ducebat." Hoppius is of opinion that 

 this may be one of that cat-tailed people, of whom Nico- 

 laus Koping affirms that they eat a boat's crew, " guber- 

 nator navis " and all ! In the " Systema naturae" Linnaeus 

 calls it in a note, Homo caudatus, and seems inclined to 

 regard it as a third species of man. According to Tern. 

 minck, Satyrus Tulpii is a copy of the figure of a Chim- 

 panzee published by Scotin in 1738, which I have not 

 seen. It is the Satyrus indicus of the " Systema Naturae," 

 and is regarded by Linnaeus as possibly a distinct species 

 from Satyrus sylvestris. The last, named Pygmceus Ed- 

 wardi, is copied from the figure of a young " Man of the 

 Woods," or true Orang-Utan, given in Edwards' ' Glean- 

 ings of Natural History,' (1758). 



Buffon was more fortunate than his great rival. Not 

 only had he the rare opportunity of examining a young 

 Chimpanzee in the living state, but he became possessed 

 of an adult Asiatic man-like Ape — the first and the last 

 adult specimen of any of these animals brought to Europe 

 for many years. With the valuable assistance of Dauben- 

 ton, Buffon gave an excellent description of this creature, 

 which, from its singular proportions, he termed the long- 

 armed Ape, or Gibbon. It is the modern Hylohates lar. 



Thus when, in 1766, Buffon wrote the fourteenth vol- 

 ume of his great work, he was personally familiar with the 

 young of one kind of African man-like Ape, and with the 

 adult of an Asiatic species — while the Orang-Utan and 

 the Mandrill of Smith were known to him by report. 

 Furthermore, the Abbe Prevost had translated a good 

 deal of Purchas' Pilgrims into French, in his ' Histoire 

 generale des Yoyages ' (1748), and there Buffon found a 

 version of Andrew Battell's account of the Pongo and the 

 Engeco. All these data Buffon attempts to weld together 

 into harmony in his chapter entitled " Les Orang-outangs 



