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hands, and its feet are longer, while the thumbs, 

 on the contrary, are much shorter, and the great 

 toes much smaller in proportion." 1 And again, 

 "The true Orang, that is to say, that of Asia, 

 that of Borneo, is consequently not the Pithecus, 

 or tail-less Ape, which the Greeks, and especially 

 Galen, have described. It is neither the Pongo 

 nor the Jocko, nor the Orang of Tulpius, nor the 

 Pigmy of Tyson, it is an animal of a peculiar 

 species, as I shall prove in the clearest manner by 

 the organs of voice and the skeleton in the 

 following chapters" (/. c. p. 64). 



A few years later, M. Radermacher, who held 

 a high office in the Government of the Dutch 

 dominions in India, and was an active member 

 of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, 

 published, in the second part of the Transac- 

 tions of that Society, 2 a Description of the Island 

 of Borneo, which was written between the years 

 1779 and 1781, and, among much other interesting 

 matter, contains some notes upon the Orang. 

 The small sort of Orang-Utan, viz. that of 

 Vosmaer and of Edwards, he says, is found only 

 in Borneo, and chiefly about Banjermassing, 

 Mampauwa, and Landak. Of these lie had seen 

 some fifty during his residence in the Indies ; but 

 none exceeded 2^ feet in length. The larger sort, 



1 Camper, CEuvres, i., p. 56. 



2 Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap. Tweede 

 Deel. Derde Druk. 1826. 



