CHAPTER XXVI. ' 



HUNTING THE OURANQ OUTANQ. 



HE Orangs, or Wild men of the Woods," for a 

 long time enjoyed a reputation almost human, a 

 reputation kept up by the prints and drawings 

 which formerly placed them almost uniformly in 

 an erect position, and by the tricks which those 

 brought to Europe were taught. But neither is the Asiatic nor 

 the African Orang formed for erect progression. If left to them- 

 selves, they move on the ground most awkwardly, doubling their 

 anterior hands, ruoving in their advance upon the knuckles, and 

 resting upon the outward edge of the posterior feet. Among 

 trees they are as active and rapid in their motion as they are 

 clumsy and slow on the ground. 



The anterior extremities of the Orang Utan* are nearly as long 

 as they are in Hylobates ; the hands, in this Asiatic, reach nearly 

 to the heels. There is a marked difference between the skull of 

 this species and the crania of Hylobates and of the Chimpanzee. 

 The interparietal crest in Pithecus satyrus is as highly developed 



* Pithccus satjrrut. 



