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fpecies walking on two feet, and, among o- 

 thers, a female (of which he gives a figure) 

 who feemed to have a fenfe of modefty, who 

 covered herfclf with her hand when men ap- 

 peared of whom fhe had no acquaintance, v/ho 

 wept, groaned, and feemed to want nothing 

 of humanity but the faculty of fpeech. Lin- 

 naeus *, upon the authority of Kjoep, and fome 

 other voyagers, tells us, that the orang-outang 

 is not deprived of this faculty ; that he thinks, 

 fpeaks, and exprelfes himfelf by a kind of hilTing 

 words. This author calls him homo no^iurnus, 

 and, at the fame time, gives fuch a defcription 

 of him, that it is impofTible to afcertain whether 

 he is a brute or a man. It may, however, be 

 remarked, that, according to Linnaeus, this being, 

 whatever he is, exceeds not the half of the hu- 

 man ftature ; and, as Bontius takes no notice of 

 the magnitude of his orang-outang, we may 

 prefiime that they are the fame. But this orang- 

 outang of Linnaeus and Bontius would not be 

 the true kind, which is larger than the tailed: 

 man. - Neither is he the jocko, which I have 



fecn 



* Homo nofluruns. Komo fylveftris Orang-outang Bontii. 

 Corpus album, inceffu ereclum, noftro dimidio minus, plli albi 

 contortuplicati, oculi orbiculati, iridi pupiilaque aurea. Pal- 

 pebrae antice incumbentes cum membrana niditante. Vifus 

 lateralis, noiflumus. ^tas viginti quinque annorum. Die 

 caecutit, latet ; noftu videt, exit, furatur. Loquitur fibilo, co- 

 gitat, credit fui caufa faHam tellurem, fe aliquando iterurn fore ini- 

 ferantem, fi fides peregrinatoribus. . . . Habitat in Javae, 

 Amboinae, Ternatae fpeluncis ; Linn. Syft. nat. edit. x. p. 24. 



