ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 

 MAN-LIKE APES 



ANCIENT traditions, when tested by the severe 

 processes of modern investigation, commonly 

 enough fade away into mere dreams : but it is 

 singular how often the dream turns out to have 

 been a half-waking one, presaging a reality. 

 Ovid foreshadowed the discoveries of the geo- 

 logist: the Atlantis was an imagination, but 

 Columbus found a western world : and though the 

 quaint forms of Centaurs and Satyrs have an 

 existence only in the realms of art, creatures 

 approaching man more nearly than they in 

 essential structure, and yet as thoroughly brutal 

 as the goat's or horse's half of the mythical 

 compound, are now not only known, but notorious. 



I have not met with any notice of one of 

 these MAN-LIKE APES of earlier date than that 

 contained in Pigafetta's "Description of the 



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