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Buffon was more fortunate than his great rival. 

 Not only had he the rare opportunity of ex- 

 amining a young Chimpanzee in the living state, 

 but he became possessed of an adult Asiatic man- 

 like Ape the first and the last adult specimen 

 of any of these animals brought to Europe for 

 many years. With the valuable assistance of 

 Daubenton, Buffon gave an excellent description 

 of this creature, which, from its singular pro- 

 portions, he termed the long- armed Ape, or 

 Gibbon. It is the modern Hylobates lar. 



Thus when, in 1766, Buffon wrote the four- 

 teenth volume of his great work, he was personally 

 familiar with the young of one kind of African 

 man-like Ape, and with the adult of an Asiatic 

 species while the Orang-Utan and the Mandrill 

 of Smith were known to him by report. Further- 

 more, the Abbe Prevost had translated a good 

 deal of Purchas' "Pilgrims" into French, in his 

 " Histoire generale des Voyages " (1748), and there 

 Buffon found a version of Andrew BattelFs 

 account of the Pongo and the Engeco. All these 

 data Buffon attempts to weld together into 

 harmony in this chapter entitled "Les Orang- 

 outangs ou le Pongo et le Jocko." To this title 

 the following note is appended : 



"Orang-outang nom de cet animal aux Indes orientales: 

 Pongo nom de cet animal a Lowando Province de Congo. 



" Jocko, Enjocko, nom de cet animal a Congo que nous avons 

 adopte. En est 1'article que nous avons retranche." 



