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comparatively small face, large facial angle, and peculiar 

 note, resembling " Kooloo." 



As the Orang shelters itself with a rough coverlet of leaves, 

 and the common Chimpanzee, according to that eminently 

 trustworthy observer Dr. Savage, makes a sound like 

 " Whoo-whoo," the grounds of the summary repudiation 

 with which M. Du Ghaillu's statements on these matters have 

 been met is not obvious. 



If I have abstained from quoting M. Du Ghaillu's work, 

 then, it is not because I discern any inherent improbability 

 in his assertions respecting the man-like Apes ; nor from 

 any wish to throw suspicion on his veracity ; but because, 

 in my opinion, so long as his narrative remains in its present 

 state of unexplained and apparently inexplicable confusion, 

 it has no claim to original authority respecting any subject 

 whatsoever. 



It may be truth, but it is not evidence. 



