20' Orang'-Outang five Homo Syheftrls : Qv, 



the Defcrjptions they give of them, it fufficiently juftifies my Complaint 

 of the uncertainty we have of the true Animal, that they are difcourfing 

 about y iince the fame Name probably may be given to ditferent Species 

 of the Jpe-kind. Now Orang-Otitang^ or Hotno Sylvejlm, or the WUd 

 Man^ being a General Name^ I have given it alfo to our Subject : Tho' I 

 confefs I am not fully fatisfied v/hether it he exadly the fame with that 

 of Tulp/m or Bonth0if or even whether thzt oi Bcntim ht- tht fame 

 with that of Tf^/p/i%r. Yox Bontzus his Account is fo very imperfeci:,. 

 that from thence one cannot make a fafe Conclufion ^ and I rather 

 fufpeft the contrary : For Bontius defcribes it with foft, tender Paflions 5 

 Ttiipius and Dapper make it Warlike and Fighting. Bontim's words are 

 thefe • (3 4) Aji quod indjorent meretur admiratlonem, vidi ego altquot ntri- 

 nfque fexus ere&e incedentes, imprimis earn (^cnjm Efflgiem hie exhibeo ) 

 Satyr am femellam^ tanta. verecundia ab ignotis jihi hominibm occitlentem , 

 turn qnoque faciem manibus (^liceat ita dicere') tegentem ubertimqne' lachrjf- 

 mantem^ geniitm cientem, d^ c£teros humanos a&us exprimentem^ ut nihil 

 ei_.bumcim deejfe diceres^ prater loquelam. Loqui vera eos eafqne pojfe, Ja- 

 'ZMm amnt^fednanveUe^ nt ad labores cogerentur : ridicule niehercules. 

 ]>iomen ei. indunt Ourang Outang, quod Hominem Sylv<ie fignificat, eofque 

 mifei afftrffiant i Libidine Mulierum Indarum^ qu£ fe Simk & Cercop'ithe- 

 emdefejianda libidine mifcent : 



Nee pueri credunt, nifi qui nondum are lavantur.- 



And then adds, that in Borneo there are thefe Wild Men, and with 

 Tails, but much (hotter than that pictured in Gefner. Porro in InfulL 

 Borneo. (^(Mh Bonti;^') in Regno Succodana di£io, a. jtoflrk Mereatoribuif. 

 propter Oryx.am (^ Adantantes fiequentato. Homines montani Caudati in in- 

 ter ioribus Regni ifweniuntur, quos multi e nojirk in Aula Regis Succodanie. 

 viderent. Cauda autem iUis eB prominentia quadam offis Coecygos^ ad qua.' 

 tHor, aut pauto amplius, digitos excrefcens, eodem modo, quo truncata cauda 

 ( quos nos Spligiones vocamm^ fed depilis^ 



'Tis for thisReafon therefore, that I might more particularly diftin- 

 guifh our Animal, that I have call'd it a Pygrnie ; a Name that was for- 

 merly given to a fort of Ape, as I (hall prove. But the Poets and Hi- 

 jiorians too of former Ages have invented fo many improbable Stories 

 about them, that they have rendred the whole ////2(?ry-concerning them 

 ridiculous, and not to be believed. We (hall therefore endeavour, to 

 diftinguilh the Truth from the Fables in the following Ejfay. 



The Baris or Ba.rris likewife feems to be an Ourang Outang, or a Wild^ 

 Mani) but whether exaftly the fame with ours, I will not determine, 

 but leave to farther Enquiry. For all the Accounts concerning it that l 



("34^ Jac. Bontij, ^ift, i^ap. ^ Md. Jib. 5. cap. 32; . 



