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CHINA. 



I give ^facsimile of a figure of the Pigmies, and translation 

 of the Chinese explanation of it, taken from the " Shan Hoi 

 Sing," or Mountain and Ocean Record ; a very ancient work, 

 parts of which were kindly translated for me by Mr. C. V. 

 Creagh. The book is in the preface referred by one com- 

 mentator to even so early a date as 2205 B.C. 



Many of the figures and descriptions in this book are 

 curiously like those which occur in European Natural-History 

 Works of about 250 years ago. 



HEN YEUNG KINGDOM. 



"The inhabitants of this country have long lips, hairy and dark bodies. 

 I'hey laugh if they see a man laughing, and when they laugh their lips 

 turn over and conceal their eyes. ' 



Some of the strange men figured are evidently monkeys : 

 as for example the men of the Hen Yeung Kingdom. The 

 Chinese figure is given in fac-siinile. It seems to represent 

 an Ape of the genus Rhinopithecus^ and might well be Rhino- 

 pithecus Roxelhifice, lately discovered by the Abbe David in 

 Eastern Thibet, and figured by A. Milne-Edwards. The 

 prominent nose in this species is turned up at the tip just 

 as shown in the Chinese wood-cut. The wide but unscientific 



