92 THE ORANG-OUTANGS, OR 



* catch them on the Ikirts of it; but that they 



* were fo exquifitely cunning and fly, that this 

 ' fcarcely happened once in a century.' 



Francis Pyrard * relates, ' That, in the pro- 



* vince of Sierra Leona, there is a fpecies of a- 



* nimals called baris, who are ftrong and well 



* limbed, and fo induftrious, that, when proper- 



* ly trained and fed, they work like fervants ; 



* that they generally walk on the two hind feed; 



* that they pound any fubftances in a mortar ; 



* that they go to bring water from the river in 



* fmall pitchers, which they carry full on their 



* heads. But, when they arrive at the door, if 



* the pitchers are not foon taken off, they allow 



* them to fall ; and, when they perceive the pit- 



* cher overturned and broken, they weep and 



* lament.' Father Jarric, quoted by Nierem- 

 bergi", fays the fame thing, nearly in the fame 

 terms. With regard to the education of thefe 

 animals, the teftimony of Schoutten % accords 

 with that of Pyrard. * They are taken,' he re- 

 marks, ' with fnares, taught to walk on their 

 ' hind feet, and to ufe their fore feet as hands in 



* performing diiFerent operations, as rinfing 



* glaffes, carrying drink round the company, 



* turning a fpit,' &c. ' I faw, at Java,' lays Guatjl, 

 ' a very extraordinary ape. It was a female. She 



' was 



• Voyage de Francois Pyrard, torn. 2. p. 331. 

 f Euf. Nieremberg. Hift. Nat. peregrin, lib. 9. cap. 45. 

 % Voyages dc Gnat Schoutten aiix Indes Oiientulcj, 

 !l Voyages de Fr. le Gnat, torn, 2. p. 96, 



