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One of the most interesting among the many valuable 

 discoveries made by Dr. Thomas Savage is the fact, that 

 the natives in the Gaboon country at the present day, 

 apply to the Chimpanzee a name " Ench6-eko " which 

 is obviously identical with the " Engeko " of Battell ; a 

 discovery which has been confirmed by all later inquirers. 

 BattelTs " lesser monster," being thus proved to be a 

 veritable existence, of course a strong presumption arose 

 that his " greater monster," the ' Pongo,' would sooner or 

 later be discovered. And, indeed, a modern traveller, 

 Bowdich, had, in 1819, found strong evidence, among 

 the natives, of the existence of a second great Ape, called 

 the ' Ingena,' " five feet high, and four across the shoulders/' 

 the builder of a rude house, on the outside of which it slept. 



In 1847, Dr. Savage had the good fortune to make 

 another and most important addition to our knowledge 

 of the man-like Apes ; for, being unexpectedly detained 

 at the Gaboon river, he saw in the house of the Rev. Mr. 

 Wilson, a missionary resident there, " a skull represented 

 by the natives to be a monkey-like animal, remarkable 

 for its size, ferocity, and habits." From the contour of 

 the skull, and the information derived from several in- 

 telligent natives, " I was induced," says Dr. Savage 

 (using the term Orang in its old general sense), " to believe 

 that it belonged to a new species of Orang. I expressed 

 this opinion to Mr. Wilson, with a desire for further investi- 

 gation ; and, if possible, to decide the point by the inspec- 

 tion of a specimen alive or dead." The result of the 

 combined exertions of Messrs. Savage and Wilson was not 

 only the obtaining of a very full account of the habits of 

 this new creature, but a still more important service to 

 science, the enabling the excellent American anatomist 

 already mentioned, Professor Wyman, to describe, from 

 ample materials, the distinctive osteological characters of 

 the new form. This animal was called by the natives of 

 the Gaboon " Enge-ena," a name obviously identical with 

 the " Ingena " of Bowdich ; and Dr. Savage arrived at the 

 conviction that this last discovered of all the great Apes 

 was the long-sought " Pongo " of Battell. 



The justice of this conclusion, indeed, is beyond doubt 

 for not only does the ' Enge-ena ' agree with BattelTs 

 " greater monster " in its hollow eyes, its great stature, 

 and its dun or iron-grey colour, but the only other man- 

 like Ape which inhabits these latitudes the Chimpanzee 



