LECTUKK II. 



This numerous race, con^tin^ of the dill< r< lit 

 kiiul> of A|) Sj Bui ...... is ami Monkcy>, lias in all 



ages extorted from tin- philosopher and the mo- 

 ralist, sentences expressive either o1' complaint or 

 admiration. 



The < i i IK- tribe, or the Orati Otan, has 



been often studiously held up as nut. only making 

 ircr approach to I ral figure of Man- 



kind than any other animal, hut even a> pos- ->iii^ 

 a di intellect. superior to the rest of the 



animal world ; and a variety of exaggerated descrip- 

 tions might be cited from those who have given 

 its natural histor\. Tu o very distinct s]>ecies of 

 Oran Otan are known: the one a native of Africa, 

 and of a Mack colour; the other a native of the 

 East Indies, and of a reddish or chesnut colour. 

 It is to thexr that most of the popular tales relate. 

 But the two species, distiw 



till lately confounded by most authors, and among 

 others by Linna'us, under the title of Sinn'ti Sa- 

 fi/rns. The sji liich makes the nearest ap- 



proach to the human figure, is the chesnut-coloured 

 or reddish Oran Otan, well represented in the 

 \\-itrks of Vosmaer and Audebert. It i^ also 

 injured by Fxl wards. The general fault of the 



