The Anatomy of a T Y G MTe, ^3 



They Jleep m the Trees, and build (Jjelters for the Rain. They Jied uton 

 Fruits that they find, in the Woods, and upon Nuts ; for they eat no kind of 

 FleJJ}. They cannot f^ca/i, and have no Z)nderjianding, 7to more than a 

 Beaji. The People of the Country, when they Travel in the Woods, make 

 Fires, where they fleep in the Night : And in the Mor7ting when they are 

 gone, the Pongoes -will come and fit about the Fire, till it goeth out • for 

 they have no XJnderfianding to lay the Wood together. ' They go many toge- 

 ther, and kill many Negroes that Travel in the Woods. Many times they 

 fall upon Elephants, which come to feed where they he, and fo beat them with 

 their clubbed Fifls, and pieces of Wood, that they will run away roaring fiota 

 them. Thefe Pongoes are never taken alive , becaufe they are fo flron<7 

 that Ten M.en cannot hold one of them : But yet they take many of their 

 Toung Ones with poifoned Arrows. The Toung Pongo hangeth on hk Mo- 

 ther's Belly, with hk Hands fafl clafped about her ; fo that when any of the 

 Country People ^i// any of the Females, they take the Toung one which hangeth 

 fafl tipon hk Mother. When they die among th^mfelves, they cover the ' 

 Dead with great heaps of Boughs and Wood, which k commonly found in 

 the Forrefis. 



Oar Pygmie had Calves in his Legs, tho' not large, being emaciated ^ 

 and it being young, I am uncertain to what height in time it might have 

 grown ; tho' I cannot think to the juft Stature (if there be any fuch) 

 • of a Man. For different Nations extreamly vary herein, and even thofe 

 of the fame. Nor did our Pygmie feem fo dull a Creature as thefe 

 Pongoes, but on the contrary, very apprehenfive, tho' nothing fo robuft - 

 and ftrong as they are reprefented to be. 



I (hall only further add what le Compte, a Modern Writer, tells us of 

 the Savage Man, and fo I think I (hall have done : For this Argument . 

 is [o Fruitful, that one does not know when to conclude. (40) Lewk 

 k Compte therefore in his Memoirs and, Obfervations upon China, tells us 

 That what k to be feen in the J/le of Borneo, k yet more Remarkable, and 

 furpafieth all that ever the Flifiory of Animals hath hitherto related to be the 

 z-zoB admirable, the People of the Country affure us, as a thing notorioufiy 

 kftown to be true : That they find in the Woods a fort of BeaB, called the 

 Savage Man ^ whofe Shape, Stature, Countenance, Arms, Legs, and other 

 Members of the Body, are fo like ours, that excepting the Voice only, one 

 pjould have much ado not to reckon them equally Men with certain Barbarians 

 in Africa, who do not much differ from Beajis. 



Thk Wild or Savage Man, of whom T (peak,, ^ endued with extraordi- 

 nary firength, and notwithjianding he walk/ but upon two Legs 5 yet k he fo 

 fwift of Foot, that they have much ado to out-run him. People of ^tality ; 



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