84 THE ORANG-OUTANGS, OR 



' mllh, are of a yellow colour, and grow to a 

 ' great fize. I faw with my eyes one which 



* was five feet high. Thcfe apes have an ugly 

 ' appearance, as well as thofe of another fpecies ; 



* perfedly fimilar in every refped:, except that 



* four of them would hardly be as large as one 

 ' of the former kind. . . . They are capable 

 ' of being taught ahnoft every thing we chooie.' 

 ' Gauthier Schoutten remarks *, * that the apes' 

 ' called orang-outangs by the Indians are nearly 



* of the fame figure and fize with men, only 



* their back and reins are covered with hair, 

 ' though there is no hair on the fore part of 

 ' their bodies ; that the females have two large 

 ^ breads ; that their vifage is coarfe, their nofe 

 ' fiat, and even funk, and their ears like thofe 



* of men ; that they are robuft and aftive ; that 

 ' they defend themfclves againrt armed men r 

 ' that they are paffionately fond of women, who 



* cannot pafs through the woods, without being 



* fuddenly attacked and ravifhed by ihefe apes.' 

 Dampier, Froger, and other travellers, afliire us, 

 that the orang-outangs carry off girls of eight 

 pr ten years of age to the tops of trees, and that 

 it is extremely difiicult to refcue them. To thcle 

 teftimonies we may add that of M. de la BrolTc, 

 .who afl!ures us, in his voyage to Angola in the 

 year 1738, that the orang-outangs, which he 

 calls qtiunpezes, ' endeavour to furprife the Ne 



* grefl'et 



i Voyage de Gaut, Schoutten. 



