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tion ; and, if possible, to decide the point by the inspec- 

 tion of a specimen alive or dead." The result of the com- 

 bined exertions of Messrs. Savage and Wilson was not 

 only the obtaining of a very full account of the habits of 

 this new creature, but a still more important service to sci- 

 ence, the enabling the excellent American anatomist al- 

 ready mentioned, Professor Wyman, to describe, from am- 

 ple materials, the distinctive osteological characters of the 

 new form. This animal was called by the natives of the 

 Gaboon " Enge-ena," a name obviously identical with the 

 "Ingena" of Bowdich ; and Dr. Savage arrived at the 

 conviction that this last discovered of all the great Apes 

 was the long-sought ' Pongo ' of Battell. 



The justice of this conclusion, indeed, is beyond doubt 

 for not only does the ' Enge-ena ' agree with Battell's 

 " greater monster " in its hollow eyes, its great stature, 

 and its dun or iron-grey colour, but the only other man- 

 like Ape which inhabits these latitudes the Chimpanzee 

 is at once identified, by its smaller size, as ihe " lesser 

 monster," and is excluded from any possibility of being 

 the ' Pongo,' by the fact that it is black and not dun, to 

 say nothing of the important circumstance already men- 

 tioned that it still retains the name of ' Engeko' or ' En- 

 che-eko,' by which Battell knew it. 



In seeking for a specific name for the ' Enge-ena,' 

 however, Dr. Savage wisely avoided the much misused 

 ' Pongo ' ; but finding in the ancient Periplus of Hanno 

 the word " Gorilla " applied to certain hairy savage peo- 

 ple, discovered by the Carthaginian voyager in an island 

 on the African coast, he attached the specific name " Go- 

 rilla," to his new ape, whence arises its present well- 

 known appellation. But Dr. Savage, more cautious than 

 some of his successors, by no means identifies his ape with 

 Hanno's ' wild men.' He merely says that the latter 

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