THE MAN-LIKE APES. 275 
immigrated from Asia, and partly perhaps from Polynesia 
(or even from Europe). 
There still exist great difficulties in establishing an 
accurate pedigree of the Human Race; this only can we 
further assert, that the nearest progenitors of man were 
tail-less Catarrhini (Lipocerca), resembling the still living 
Man-like Apes. These evidently developed at a late 
period out of tailed Catarrhini (Menocerca), the original 
form of Ape. Of those tail-less Catarrhini, which are now 
frequently called Man-like Apes, or Anthropoides, there 
still exist four different genera containing about a dozen 
different species. 
The largest Man-like Ape is the famous Gorilla (called 
Gorilla engena, or Pongo gorilla), which is indigencus to 
the tropics of western Africa, and was first discovered 
by the missionary, Dr. Savage, in 1847, on the banks of 
the river Gaboon. Its nearest relative is the Chim- 
panzee (Engeco troglodytes, or Pongo troglodytes), also 
indigenous to western Africa, but considerably smaller 
than the Gorilla, which surpasses man in size and strength. 
The third of the three large Man-like Apes is the Orang, or 
Orang Outang, indigenous to Borneo and the other Sunda 
Islands, of which two kindred species have recently been 
distinguished, namely, the large Orang (Satyrus orang, or 
Pithecus satyrus) and the small Orang (Satyrus morio, or 
Pithecus morio). Lastly, there still exists in southern Asia 
the genus Gibbon (Hylobates), of which from four to eight 
different species are distinguished. They are considerably 
smaller than the three first-named Anthropoides, and in 
most characteristics differ more from Man. 
The tail-less Man-like Apes—especially since we have 
