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^ grefles, whom they detain for the purpofe of 

 ' enjoying them, and entertain them plentiful- 

 ' ly. 1 knew a Negrefs at Loango who remain- 



• ed three years with thefe animals. They grow 



* from fix to feven feet high. They ere£l huts, 



• and ufe bludgeons in their own defence. They 

 ' have flat faces, broad flat nofes, flat ears, fltins 

 ' clearer than thofe of Molattoes, long thinly 

 ' fcattered hairs on feveral parts of their bodieSj 

 ' bellies extremely tenfe, and flat heels raifed 



* behind about half an inch. They walk upon 



• two or four feet, at pleafure. We purchafed 

 ' two young ones, a male of fourteen months of 



* age, and a female of twelve,' &c. 



We have thus enumerated the moft certaiti 

 fads we could colled concerning the great orang- 

 outang or pongo ; and, as magnitude is the chief 

 charader by which it differs from the jocko, I 

 perfift in thinking that they are of the fame fpe- 

 cies : For two circumftances are at leaft poflible : 

 I, The jocko may he a permanent variety, a race 

 much fmaller than that of the Pongo. In fadj 

 they both inhabit the fame climate ; they live iii 

 the fame manner ; and, of courfe, ought to re- 

 femble each other in every article, fince they 

 both receive equally the influences of the fame; 

 foil and fky. In the human fpecies, have we 

 not an example of a fimilar variety ? The 

 Laplander and Fin, though they live under the 

 fame climate, differ nearly as much in ftature^ 

 . F 3 and 



