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have at prcfent met v/ith, relate rather ic's Docility and Aftions, and the 

 Servile Offices 'tis capable of performing in a Family, than any thing 

 particular as to the Defcription of the Body ; only in general that 'tis 

 an Ape like a Man. Thus Peter Gajjendus (35) in the Life of Peiresky 

 tdls us, that in Java Major were obferved by the Sieur de Saint-Amant, 

 Ammalia qua forent Natm-Lt ho?umes inter & fimias media j which beinp' 

 doubted of, Peireshy produced a Letter from Nat alls ov Noel, a Phyfician 

 who lived in Afiica , which gave him this Account. Ejfe in Guinea 

 Simias^ barb^ procera, canaqite, C^ pexa propemodum venerabikk^ incedere 

 iff&s lente, ac videri Jibi pr£ caterk fapere : qui maximi fant, C^ Barris 

 dicuntur^poUere maximi judicio 5 femel duntaxat quidpiam docendos 5 vejls 

 indutos iUico bipedes incedere ; jcite ludere fijiida^ Cithara^ aliifque id genm 

 (^nam qnod everrant doffmm^ convert ant veru, pinfant in mortario\, aliaqtis 

 ratione famnlatum pr^Jia-nt^ hand repntari admodnm ) fzminas dtnique its 

 ik pati menfirua, C^ tnares tmdierum ejje appetentijjimos. He likewife 

 produced other Letters from Ac^/fW or d Arcos^ which related what 

 happened to one of Ferrari a when he was at Angola^ the Country from' 

 v/hence our Animal, as likewife that of Tulpim came. I will gtve it in- 

 GajJend!0S words : Incidit nempe quadam die inNigritam Canibm venan-' 

 tern Homines ut yifitm, Sylvejirek. Capto, c^foqiie ikontm uno, inhumani- 

 iatem NigrittS increptdt, qui in funm genus ita feviret. lUe ver)). falierk ^ 

 inquit, nam hie nan efi homo, fed bellua homini perfimilk. ^lippe file 

 pafcitur herba, inteftinaque Ovina habet, qtiod ut credos melius, rem ecce 5 

 fimulque abd.onmt apernit. Sequenti die rurfus venatum, captique mas ^'^ 

 fcemina : huic Mamm£ ad pedk longitudinem : c£tera mulieri jimillimct 

 fuit ty nifi quod Intefiina qiioque herbk oppleta, e$" cujufmodi Ovk, habuiP,' ■ 

 Totum. ntique pilofum Corpus, fed pilo brevi, ac fatk lent. 



Our Animal was not fo bearded, as that of Natalk , and what Ar- 

 cofius relates of his Wild Man, or Barrk ; as it's feeding upon Grafs , 

 and having it's Intejiines like a Sheep's, all this is far different from ours 5 

 tho' as to it's docility and capacity of performing thofe Anions men- 

 tioned, I can't but think our Subjeft inight eafily have been taught to do 

 them j and, it may be, others too of the ^pe-kind, tho' different : As 

 there are wonderful Inflances of this kind given of them by Nierember- 

 gius (:^6') and others. Dapper's (57) Defcription is much the fame. 

 TAere k- a fort of Ape (faith he ) call'd Baris, which they take when young:, 

 and breed them up, and make them fo tame, that they will do almoll all the 

 Work, of "' Slave : For they go ordinarily upright as Men do ; they will beat 

 Rice in a Mortar, carry Water in a Pitcher, and fljeiv fuch pretty ASiions of 

 Addrefs, that they extreamly divert their Mafters. And in Nierember- 

 git^ (38) there is much the fame A.ccount. " In Guinea fcribit P. Jar- 

 "■ ricus exiftere Simias, quae inftar famuli in Pila tundant qua^cunque in 



(55) Vb.^. p.m. 171. (3^) Hifl. I^at. lib. 9. cag. 44, (37) Dapper VeM^r. de I' AfiiqHt, ■ 

 V' 24?. (38) I^ifl' m. 1. 9. cap. 43,, . 



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