112 CHARACTERS OF THE MONKEY TRIBE. 



while others exhibit successive degrees of approximation 

 towards the neighbouring animals. 



The divisions of orangs, which is the most strongly 

 anthropo-morphous, and includes the two slmlae, confound- 

 ed together under the names of oran-utang, pongo, jocko^ 

 barrls, &c. and two others called gibbons {S. Lar, or long- 

 armed monkey ; S. Leucisca, or wouwou), is characterized 

 by the slight prominence of the jaws, so that they have a 

 large facial angle ; by the want of tail ; by possessing an 

 OS hyoldes, liver, and caecum like the human : the latter 

 part has an appendix vermiformls, as in man. They have 

 very long arms. 



The simia satyrus * is the true animal so much celebrated 

 under the name of orang-utang f. It is principally, if not 

 solely, found on the great island of Borneo, whence it has 

 been sometimes brought to us through Java. It is about 

 three feet in height. As the specimens conveyed hither 

 have been young, we may suppose that It would reach to 

 between three and four feet when grown up ; but none 

 liave been seen in Europe exceeding three feet. The body 

 is covered with strong reddish brown hair. The front of 

 the head has a very human character, the forehead being 

 large and high, and the facial angle consequently consider- 

 able : indeed, no animal approaches to man so nearly as 

 this, in the form of the head and volume of the brain. The 

 face is bluish or lead-coloured : there are no cheek-pouches 



* Blumenbach jibbildungcn m. h, Gcgenstdnde; No. 12 ; the craniuQi, 

 No. 52. The animal has been figured by Vosmear, from a living specimen 

 at the Hague, from which engraving that of Blumenbach is copied : by 

 Camper (who has also given a detailed anatomical description of it), with 

 his usual fidelity and accuracy, from a dead specimen preserved in spirits ; 

 (Euvrcs cVlIistolre Nat. &c. planche 1. fig. I : tig. 2, 3, 4, and 5, of the same 

 plate, are representations of the entire and bony head ; and most excel- 

 lently, in a coloured engraving, by Mr. Abel, who brought one with him from 

 Batavia (now alive in Exeter Change), and has given a very interesting 

 description of him in his Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China. 



+ The import of this Malay term is 'wild man,' or ' man of the woods'. 

 'Orang' means, in fact, rational creature ; and is applied to man, to the 

 monkey in question, and to the elephant. 



