284 . ANIMALS OF THE 



hands were as long as the soles of the feet, and 

 the toes upon these were as long as the fingers ; 

 the middle toe was the longest of all, and the 

 whole foot differed from the human. The hinder 

 feet being thus formed as hands, the animal often 

 used them as such ; and, on the contrary, now 

 and then made use of its hands instead of feet. 

 The breasts appeared small and shrivelled, but 

 exactly like those of a man : the navel also ap- 

 peared very fair, and in exact disposition, being 

 neither harder nor more prominent than what is 

 usually seen in children. Such is the description 

 of this extraordinary creature ; to which little has 

 been added by succeeding observers, except that 

 the colour of the hair is often found to vary : in 

 that described by Edwards it was of a reddish- 

 brown. 



From a picture so like that of the human spe- 

 cies, we are naturally led to expect a correspond- 

 ing mind; and it is certain that such of these 

 animals as have been shown in Europe, have dis- 

 covered a degree of imitation beyond what any 

 quadruped can arrive at. 



That of Tyson was a gentle, fond, harmless 

 creature. In its passage to England, those that 

 it knew on ship-board it would embrace with the 

 greatest tenderness, opening their bosoms, and 

 clasping its hands about them. Monkeys of a 

 lower species it held in utter aversion ; it would 

 always avoid the place where they were kept in 

 the same vessel, and seemed to consider itself as 

 a creature of higher extraction. After it was 

 taken, and a little used to wear clothes, it grew 



