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informed natives believe them. They are tales 

 told to children. 



I might quote other testimony to a similar 

 effect, but, as it appears to me, less carefully 

 weighed and sifted, from the letters of MM. 

 Franquet and Gautier Laboullay, appended to 

 the memoir of M. I. G. St. Hilaire, which I have 

 already cited. 



Bearing in mind what is known regarding the 

 Orang and the Gibbon, the statements of Dr. 

 Savage and Mr. Ford do not appear to me to be 

 justly open to criticism on a priori grounds. The 

 Gibbons, as we have seen, readily assume the 

 erect posture, but the Gorilla is far better fitted by 

 its organization for that attitude than are the 

 Gibbons : if the laryngeal pouches of the Gibbons, 

 as is very likely, are important in giving volume 

 to a voice which can be heard for half a league, 

 the Gorilla, which has similar sacs, more largely 

 developed, and whose bulk is fivefold that of a 

 Gibbon, may well be audible for twice that dis- 

 tance. If the Orang fights with its hands, the 

 Gibbons and Chimpanzees with their teeth, the 

 Gorilla may, probably enough, do either or both ; 

 nor is there anything to be said against either 

 Chimpanzee or Gorilla building a nest, when it is 

 proved that the Orang-Utan habitually performs 

 that feat. 



With all this evidence, now ten to fifteen years 

 old, before the world, it is not a little surprising 



