50 THE ORAN OTAK", 



fork, or spoon^ to cut or lay hold of what was put 

 on their plate. That they drank wine and other 

 liquors. At table, when they wanted any thing, 

 they easily made themselves understood to the cabin- 

 boy ; and when the boy refused to answer their de- 

 mands, they sometimes became enraged, seized 

 him by the arm, bit, and threw him down. The 

 male was seized with sickness, and he made the peo- 

 ple attend him as if he had been a human being. 

 He was even bled twice in the right arm, and, when- 

 ever afterwards he found himself in the same condi- 

 tion, he held out his arm to be bled, as if he knew 

 that he had formerly received benefit from that ope- 

 ration *. 



Two of these animals were sent from the forests 

 of the Carnatic, by a coasting vessel, as a present 

 to the governor of Bombay. They, like the rest of 

 the species, had many human actions, and seemed, 

 by their melancholy, to have a rational sense of 

 their captivity. They were scarcely two feet high, 

 but walked erect, and had, very nearly, the human 

 form. The female was taken ill during the voyage, 

 and died ; and the male, exhibiting every demon- 

 stration of grief, seemed to take it so much to heart, 

 that he refused to eat, and lived only two days after- 

 wards -jf. 



^' I saw at Java, (says Guat,) a very extraordinary 

 Ape. It was a female. She was very tall, and often 

 walked erect on her hind feet. Except on the eye- 

 brows, there was no hair on her face, which pretty 



• IJulT. Quad. viii. 89- t <^i"o*e i. I3i. 



