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ou le Pongo et le Jocko." To this title the following note 

 is appended : — 



" Orangoutang nom de cet animal aux Indes orientales : Pongo nom de 

 cet animal a Lowando Province de Congo. 



"Jocko, Enjocko, nom de cet animal a Congo que nous avons adopte. 

 En est l'article que nous avons retranche." 



Thus it was that Andrew Battell's " Engeco " became 

 metamorphosed into " Jocko," and, in the latter shape, 

 was spread all over the world, in consequence of the ex- 

 tensive popularity of Buffon's works. The Abbe Prevost 

 and Buffon between them however, did a good deal more 

 disfigurement to Battell's sober account than ' cuttino- off 

 an article.' Thus Battell's statement that the Pongos 

 " cannot speake, and have no understanding more than a 

 beast," is rendered by Buffon " qu'il ne peut parler 

 quoiqiCil ait plus d'entendement que les autres ani- 

 m<mx /" and again, Purchas' affirmation, "He told me 

 in conference with him, that one of these Pongos tooke a 

 negro boy of his which lived a moneth with them," stands 

 in the French version, " un pongo ltd enleva un petit 

 negre qui passa un an entier dans la societe de ces ani- 

 maux." 



After quoting the account of the great Pongo, Buffon 

 justly remarks, that all the ' Jockos ' and ' Orangs ' hith- 

 erto brought to Europe were young ; and he suggests that, 

 in their adult condition, they might be as big as the Pongo 

 or ' great Orang ; ' so that, provisionally, he regarded the 

 Jockos, Orangs, and Pongos as all of one species. And 

 perhaps this was as much as the state of knowledge at the 

 time warranted. But how it came about that Buffon 

 failed to perceive the similarity of Smith's ' Mandrill ' to 

 his own ' Jocko,' and confounded the former with so to- 



