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ihat they will run roaring away from them. 

 ' Thofe Pongos are never taken alive, becauie 

 they are lb llrong, that ten men cannot hold 

 • one of them ; but yet they take many of their 

 young ones with poifoned arrows. The young 

 ■ Pongo hangeth on his mother's belly, with his 

 ' hands faft clafped about her ; lb that, when 

 ' the country people kill any of the females, 

 ' they take the young one, which hangeth fall 

 upon his mother *.' Ic is from this explicit 

 paflage that I have derived the names pongo 

 vcvdi jocko. Battel farther remarks, that, when 

 one of thefe animals dies, the others cover his 

 body with branches and leaves of trees.- Pur- 

 chas adds in a note, that, in the converfations 

 he had with Battel, he learned that a pongo car- 

 ried off a young Negro from him, who lived a 

 whole year in the fociety of thefe animals ; that, 

 on his return, the Negro faid, that they had ne^ 

 ver injured him ; that they were generally as 

 tall as a man, but much thicker ; and that they 

 were nearly double the volume of an ordinary 

 man. Jobfon aflures us, that, in places frequent- 

 ed by thefe animals, he faw a kind of habitations 

 compoled of interlaced branches of trees, which 

 would at leaft protect them from the fcorching 

 rays of the fun "]". ' The apes of Guiney,' fays 

 Bofman J, ' which are called yiw/'/Zfy^ by the Fle- 



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* Purchas's Pilgrims, part. 2. p. 982. 

 f Hift. gen. des Voyages, torn. 3. p. 295. 

 J Voyage de Guinte, p. 258. 



