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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 descrip- 

 tion 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. 



FIG. 6. The Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus. 



' Anthropomorpha ') 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. Troglodyte 

 Bontii ; 2. Lucifer Aldrovandi ; 3. Satyrus Tulpii ; 4. 

 Pygm&us 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 Sy sterna Naturae, it is enumerated as a 

 second species of Homo ; " H. nocturnus." Lucifer Aldro- 

 vandi is a copy of a figure in Aldrovandus, De Quadrupedt- 

 bus digitalis viviparis, Lib. 2, p. 249 (1645), entitled " Cer- 

 copithecus formae rarae Barbilius vocatus et originem a 

 china ducebat." Hoppius is of opinion that this may be 



