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hated its snotty nose ; one who hurt it, being checked by the 

 negro that took care of it, told the slave he was very fond of 

 his country-woman, and asked him if he should not like her for 

 a wife ? To which the slave very readily replied, * No, this no 

 my wife ; this a white woman this fit wife for you.' This 

 unlucky wit of the negro's, I fancy, hastened its death, for next 

 morning it was found dead under the windlass." 



William Smith's " Mandrill," or " Boggoe," as his 

 description and figure testify, was, without doubt, 

 a Chimpanzee. 



Linnaeus knew nothing, of his own observation, 

 of the man -like Apes of either Africa or Asia, but 

 a dissertation by his pupil Hoppius in the 

 "Amcenitates Academics" (VI. " Anthropomor- 

 pha ") may be regarded as embodying his views 

 respecting these animals. 



The .dissertation is illustrated by a plate, of 

 which the accompanying woodcut, Fig. 6, is a 

 reduced copy. The figures are entitled (from 

 left to right 1. Troglodyta Bontii ; 2. Lucifer 

 Aldrovandi; 3. Satyrus Tidpii ; 4. Pygmceus 

 Edwardi. The first is a bad copy of Bontius' 

 fictitious " Ourang-outang," in whose existence, 

 however, Linnaeus appears to have fully believed ; 

 for in the standard edition of the " Systema 

 Naturae," it is enumerated a-s a second species of 

 Homo; "H. nocturnus." Lucifer Aldrovandi is 

 a copy of a figure in Aldrovandus, " De Quadru- 

 pedibus digitatis viviparis," Lib. 2, p. 249 (1645) 

 entitled " Cercopithecus formae raraB Barlilim 

 vocatus et originem a china ducebat." Hoppius 



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