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cated opposite the middle of the larynx, each branch having a 

 pyriform shape and extending beneath the clavicle quite to the 

 axilla. The hyoid bone projects anteriorly beyond the thy- 

 roid cartilage, more than in man. Tiie platysma muscles 

 serve as compressors of the laryngeal pouch, meeting on the 

 median line from the chin to the top of the sternum, and 

 leave no vacant triangular space as in man. 



^^ Facts illustrative of the habits of the Troglodytes niger, or 

 Black Orang of Africa. 



" The face of the country around Cape Palmas is broken, 

 but not to that degree in which it might be called mountainous. 

 As we proceed into the interior, a constant succession of hill 

 and dale is seen ; the former, often with sides abrupt, and 

 crowned with lofty trees ; the latter bearing coarse grass, and 

 shrubbery with numerous palm trees interspersed. The soil 

 upon the hills is clayey, strongly colored with *oxide of iron, 

 and has often widely scattered uj)on the surface fragments of 

 sienite and quartz, the latter in much less quantity. The val- 

 leys are not extensive. Their soil is sandy, abounding in 

 ferns, and, when fertile is made so by a loose admixture of 

 light vegetable matter, which is soon exhausted by cultivation, 

 and the sweeping rains. Fruit trees of different kinds are 

 found abundantly both on the hills and in the valleys. Their 

 fruits, though crude, and mostly unacceptable to the human 

 palate, afford a great variety to the Chimpanzee ; coming to 

 maturity at different seasons, their succession of crops yield 

 an almost never-failing supply. 



" In some localities, through extensive clearing of the land 

 by the natives for the purpose of planting rice, a scarcity will 

 exist at certain seasons. The tender foliage of particular 

 trees then becomes a substitute. The trees from which their 

 food is derived, are generally scattered, except perhaps the 

 Elais guiniensis, which, if not cut down, will be found abundant 

 everywhere. The Palm nut — its fruit, is freely eaten by the 

 orang, as also the upper part of its stipe formed of the young, 



