THE MAN-LIKE APES. 21 



SO called I know not, nor did I ever hear the name before, 

 neither can those who call them so tell, except it be for 

 their near resemblance of a human creatm-e, though noth- 

 ing at all like an Ape. Their bodies, when full grown, 

 are as big in circumference as a middle-sized man's — their 

 legs much shorter, and their feet larger ; their arms and 

 hands in proportion. The head is monstrously big, and 

 the face broad and flat, without any other hair but the 

 eyebrows ; the nose very small, the mouth wide, and the 

 lips thin. The face, which is covered by a white skin, is 

 monstrously ugly, being all over wrinkled as with old age ; 

 the teeth broad and yellow ; the hands have no more hair 

 than the face, but the same white skin, though all the rest 

 of the body is covered with long black hair, like a bear. 

 They never go upon all-fours, like apes ; but cry, when 

 vexed or teased, just like children 



" When I was at Sherbro, one Mr. Cummerbus, whom 

 I shall have occasion hereafter to mention, made me a 

 present of one of these strange animals, which are called 

 by the natives Boggoe : it was a she-cub, of six months' 

 age, but even then larger than a Baboon. I gave it in 

 charge to one of the slaves, who knew how to feed and 

 nurse it, being a very tender sort of animal ; but when- 

 ever I went off the deck the sailors began to teaze it — 

 some loved to see its tears and hear it cry ; others hated 

 its snotty-nose ; one who hurt it, being checked by the 

 negro that took care of it, told the slave he was very fond 

 of his country-woman, and asked him if he should not like 

 her for a wife ? To which the slave very readily replied, 

 ' No, this no my wife ; this a white woman — this fit wife 

 for you.' This unlucky wit of the negro's, I fancy, has- 

 tened its death, for next morning it was found dead under 

 the windlass." 



Wilham Smith's ' Mandrill,' or ' Boggoe,' as his de- 



