THE PONGO AND JOCKO. 8i 



both of the external and internal parts of the 

 orang-outang, tell us, that there are two fpecies, 

 and that the one he defcribeJ is not fo large as 

 the other which is called barris * or baris 

 by travellers, and drill by the Britifh. This 

 barris or drill is the large orang-outang of the 

 Eaft Indies, or the pongo of Guiney. Gaf- 

 lendi having advanced, upon the authority of a 

 Toyager called St Amand^ that, in the ifland of 

 Java, there was a creature which conftituted the 

 Ihade between man and the ape, the fatS was 

 ftrenuoufly denied. To prove it, Peirefc produ- 

 ced a letter from M. Noel, (Natalis)^ a phyfi- 

 cian who refided in Africa, from which it ap- 

 pearedf, that large apes were found in Guiney 

 under the denomination of i'arrij-, who walk oix 

 two legs, have much more gravity and intelli- 

 gence than the other fpecies, and are extremely 

 defirous of women. Darcos, and afterwards 

 Nieremberg % and Dapper §, give neai'ly the 

 fame account of the barris. Battel calls ic pon- 

 VoL. VI I L F gQ^ 



* The !iarii or barris, whicli they defcribe to be much taller 

 than our animal, probably may be what va call a drill i Ty- 

 Jon, anat. of a pig^ny, /•. i . 



f Sunt in Guinea fimiae, barba piocera canaque, et pexa 

 propemodum venerabiles ; incedunt lente, ac videntur prac 

 caeteris fapere ; maximi funt et harris dicuntur ; pollcnt maxi- 

 mej'.idiclo, femel dumtaxat quidpiam docendi. Velle induti 

 illico bipedes ii>ceduni:. Scite ludunt fiftula, cythara, allifque 

 id genus. . .' Foeminae denique in iis patiuiitiir menftrua, 

 et mares mullerum funt appetentiiumi ; Gapndi, lib. j. 



X Nieremberg, Hift. Nat. Peregr. lib. 9. cap. 44.. 



^ Defcript. de I'Afrique, par Dapper, p. 249. 



