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but twice as bigge in feature of their limmes, with strength 

 proportionable, hairie all over, otherwise altogether like 

 men and women in their whole bodily shape.* They lived 

 on such wilde fruits as the trees and woods yielded, and in 

 the night time lodged on the trees." 



This extract is, however, less detailed and clear in its 

 statements than a passage in the third chapter of the 

 second part of another work Purchas his Pilgrimes, 

 published in 1625, by the same author which has been 

 often, though hardly ever quite rightly, cited. The chapter 

 is entitled, " The strange adventures of Andrew Battell, of 

 Leigh in Essex, sent by the Portugals prisoner to Angola, 

 who lived there and in the adioining regions neere eighteene 

 yeeres." And the sixth section of this chapter is headed 

 " Of the Provinces of Bongo, Calongo, Mayombe, Mani- 

 kesocke, Motimbas : of the Ape Monster Pongo, their 

 hunting : Idolatries ; and divers other observations." 



" This province (Calongo) toward the east bordereth upon 

 Bongo, and toward the north upon Mayombe, which is 

 nineteen leagues from Longo along the coast. 



" This province of Mayombe is all woods and groves, 

 so overgrowne that a man may travaile twentie days in the 

 shadow without any sunne or heat. Here is no kind of 

 corne nor graine, so that the people liveth onely upon 

 plantanes and roots of sundrie sorts, very good ; and 

 nuts ; nor any kinde of tame cattell, nor hens. 



" But they have great store of elephant's flesh, which 

 they greatly esteeme, and many kinds of wild beasts ; 

 and great store of fish. Here is a great sandy bay, two 

 leagues to the northward of Gape Negro,t which is the 

 port of Mayombe. Sometimes the Portugals lade log- 

 wood in this bay. Here is a great river, called Banna : 

 in the winter it hath no barre, because the generall winds 

 cause a great sea. But when the sunne hath his south 

 declination, then a boat may goe in ; for then it is smooth 

 because of the raine. This river is very great, and hath 

 many ilands and people dwelling in them. The woods are 

 so covered with baboones, monkies, apes and parrots, that 

 it will feare any man to travaile in them alone. Here are 

 also two kinds of monsters, which are common in these 

 woods, and very dangerous. 



* " Except this that their legges had no calves." [Ed. 1626.J 

 And in a marginal note, " These great apes are called Pongo's." 

 f Purchas' note. Cape Negro is in 16 degrees south of the line. 



