of the IJland of Borneo. 2 29 



Colour, and has no hair, except a very thin beard. The 

 neck is exceedingly fhort. The bread is much broader than 

 the hips. At the rump there is no appearance of a tail, nor 

 of any tough projecting hide. The penis feems to be drawn 

 back into the body. The'hands are long, and the palms as 

 well as the fingers are of a dark brown colour, and have 

 no hair. The legs are fhort and thin, but the mufcles are 

 ftrong. The feet have a great refemblance to the hands. 

 The toes and fingers are furnifhed with black nails, almoft 

 like thofe of a man, except the large toes, which are fmaller 

 and fhorter ; a difference that arifes perhaps from the fre- 

 quent ufe made of them. The bread and the belly are 

 moftly bare. The other parts of the body, the face, the 

 ears, the palms of the hands, the feet and the fingers ex- 

 cepted, are covered with brown hair, which in many places 

 is fully as long as the finger. 



Under the fkin of the throat and bread of the animal 

 tranfmitted to the fociety, there were found two bags, one 

 of which occupied the greater part of the bread, and, as well 

 as the fmaller which was inclofed in it, had a communi- 

 cation with the wind-pipe. As this rare animal was de- 

 dined for the cabinet of the Prince of Orange, it was fub- 

 jetted to no farther anatomical refearches, for fear of de- 

 ftroying its configuration. The bowels, to guard againft 

 corruption, were taken out before it had been .tranfmitted 

 to Batavia. We, however, flatter ourfelves witrythe well- 

 grounded hope of being able to give, at fome future period, 

 a particular and accurate account of the properties, habits 

 and manner of living of this large orang outang, as the ju- 

 rifdiclion of the Ead India Company, under the prefent 

 government, has been fo confiderably extended in Borneo, 

 that accefs is now opened for us to the interior parts of that 

 great ifland *. With regard to the manner in which this 



* In the fecond ; art of the Tranfaftions of the Batavian Society there 

 is a pretty circumdantial defcription of this ifland, together with a fhort 

 CXtradt from the journal of the above- mentioned M. Palm. 



. Q^3 animal 



