78 THE ORANG-OUTANGS, OR 



all the apes, they have the greatefl: refemblance 

 to man ; and, confequently, deferve particular 

 attention. We have feen the fmall oranp--ou- 



o 



tang, or jocko, alive, and have preferved its fkin. 

 But, of the pongo, or great orang-outang, we 

 can only give the relations of travellers. If 

 thefe were faithful, if they were not often ob- 

 fcure, falfc, and exaggerated, we could not he- 

 fitate in pronouncing it to be a different fpecies 

 from the jocko, a fpecies more perfect, and ap- 

 proaching nearer to that of man. Boniius, who 

 was chief phyfician of Batavia, and bas left us 

 fome excellent remarks on the natural hiftorv of 

 that part of the Indies, fxys exprefsly f, that he 

 Hiw, with admiration, fome individuals of this 



fpecies 



L'homme de bois, finiia unguibus omnibus planis et rctiin- 

 datis, caefarie faciem cingente ; Buijfoi, quad. p. 134. 



Mr Pennaat, in his Synopfis of Quadrupeds, />. 96. makes 

 but one fp-cies of the pongo and jocko, of wliich Jie gives the 

 following defcription : 



Great ape with a flat face, and a deformed refemblance of 

 the human ; ears exaclly like thofe of a man ; hair on the ilea J 

 longer than on the body; body and limbs covered withreddilh 

 and fliaggy hair ; longefl hair on the back, thiuneft on the 

 fore parts ; face and paws fwarthy ; buttocks covered with 

 hair. 



t Quod meretur admirationem, vidi ego aliquot utriufque 

 fexus erecle incedentes imprimis (ciijus effigiem hie exhibeo) 

 fatyram femellam tanta verecundia ab ignotis fibi hominibir, 

 occulentem, turn quoque faciem manibus (liceat ita dicere) 

 tegentem, ubertimque lacrymantem, gemitus cientem, et cae- 

 teros humanos aftus expriraentem, ut nihil human! ei deei'ib 

 diceres praetcr loquclam .... Nomcn ci indunc Ourang- 

 eutar.g, quod hominem filvac lignificat; Jac. Bo>:t. Htji. r.:i:. 

 bid. cap. 11. p. 84. ct 85. ' 



