218 THE ORAN-OTANG. 
Islands; and almost all the stories which are 
usually told, as of the Great Indian or Asi- 
atic Ape, properly pertains to the African 
Coasts. 
The largest and most remarkable Oran- 
Otang which, as it is said, was ever seen by 
Kuropeans, was discovered and shot by an 
officer of the English ship, Mary Anne So- 
phia, in the year 1824, at a place called 
Ramboon, near Toromon, on the west coast 
of the Island of Sumatra—a soil from which 
we have recently received so many Zoolo- 
gical novelties, especially through the active 
researches of Sir Stamford Raffles. When 
the officer I allude to first saw the animal, 
he assembled his people, and followed it to 
a tree, In a cultivated spot, in which it, took 
refuge. Its walk was erect, but waddling, 
and not quick, and it was obliged to assist 
its motion occasionally with its hands; yet, 
by the help of a bough, or staff, with which 
it armed itself, it went forward with consi- 
derable rapidity. When it reached the tree, 
its strength displayed itself in a very high 
degree; for at one spring it gained a very 
lofty branch, and again bounded from it with 
