THE MAN-LIKE APES 



kingdom of Congo," 1 drawn up from the notes 

 of a Portuguese sailor, Eduardo Lopez, and pub- 

 lished in 1598. The tenth chapter of this work 

 is entitled " De Animalibus quse in hac provincia 



FIG. 1. Simise magnatum delicise. De Bry, 1598. 



reperiuntur," and contains a brief passage to the 

 effect that " in the Songan country, on the banks 

 of the Zaire, there are multitudes of apes, which 



1 REGNTJM CONGO : hoc est VERA DESCRIPTIO REGNI 

 AFRICANI QUOD TAM AB INCOLIS QUAM LUSITANIS CONGUS 

 A.PPELLATTJR, per Philippum Pigafettam, olim ex Edoardo 

 Lopez acroainatis lingua Italica excerpta, num Latio sennone 

 donata ab August. Cassiod. Reinio. Iconibus et imaginibns 

 rerum memorabilium quasi vivis, opera et industria Joan. 

 Theodori et Joan. Israelis de Bry, fratrum exornata. Franco* 

 furti, MDXOVIII. 



