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man, as the lobules of the ear, the tumid lips, particularly 

 the Inferior, &c., I have a few remarks to make on the 

 smoothness of the human Integuments. " Dantur," says 

 LiNNJ^.us *, " alicubi terrarum, simise minus quam homo 

 pilosae :" but he does not tell us in what part of the world 

 they are to be found. The unanimous reports of all tra- 

 vellers, as well as the specimens of such animals exhibited 

 in Europe, prove incontestably that the manlike simiae, 

 whether the orang-utang of Borneo, or chlmpansd of An- 

 gola, as well as the long-armed monkey or gibbon, are 

 widely different from the human subject in this respect. 

 Although the individuals brought into these countries have 

 been under the adult age, and generally very sickly, their 

 body has been in all cases universally hairy. We have, 

 indeed, some accounts of people, particularly in the islands 

 of the South Sea, remarkable for their hairyness; but they 

 are not completely satisfactory. Spangberg relates, that he 

 found such a race in one of the southern Kurile islands 

 (lat. 43^ 50®), on his return from Japan to Kamtschatka f : 

 and J. R. Forster observed individual anomalous instances 

 in the Islands of Tanna, Mallicollo, and New Caledonia J. 

 It was reported to Mr. Marsden, when inquiring concern- 

 ing the aborigines of Sumatra, that there are two species 

 living in the woods, with peculiar language : one of these 

 (called orang-gugu) was described as " differing but little in 

 the use of speech from the orang-utang of Borneo, their 

 bodies being covered with long hairs § .'' 



* Fanna Suecica ; Praef. 



+ Russischer GescJiichte ; i. iii. p. 174. 



:j: " I observed several of these people (the Mallicollese) who were very 

 hairy all over the body, not excepting the back ; and this circumstance I 

 also observed in Tanna and New Caledonia." Observations on a Voyage 

 round the Worlds p. 243. That this hairyness is neither common to all the 

 natives of the islands enumerated, nor even very frequent or remarkable in 

 accidental cases, may be inferred from its not being at all noticed by Cook, 

 who however describes minutely the persons of these islanders. Voyage 

 towards the South Polc^ v. ii. pp. 34, 7S, US. 



^ History of Sumatra, ed. 3, p. 41, note. 



