24 Or ang^O Jit ang five Homo Sykejlns '. Or, 



Courfe htrti^ as ws do Stags here, and thk fort of Hunting is the Kings 

 ufnal Divertifement. Hk Skin k all hairy, hk Eyes funk^ in hk Head, a 

 fiern Countenance, tanned Face 5 hut all hk Lineaments are petty propor- 

 tionable, although harfj, and thickned by the Sun. 1 learn d all thefe Par' 

 tiadars from one of our French Merchants, vpho hath remained fome time 

 upon the Ijland. Neverthelefs, I do not believe a Man ought to give much 

 Credit to fuch fort of Relations, neither muU we altogether reje£i them as 

 fabulous j but wait till the unanimous Tejlimonies of fever al Travellers may 

 more particularly acquaint m with the Truth of it. 



Pajjlng upon a time f'om China to the Coafi of Coramandel, / did my 

 felf fee in the Straits of Molucca a kind of Ape, that might make pretty 

 credible that which I juU now related concerning the Savage Man. 



It marches naturally upon it's two hind Feet, rvhich it bends a little, lih^ 

 ^ T>ogs, that hath been taught to Dance^ it makes ufe of it's two Arms as we 

 do 5 it's Vifage k in a manner as well favoured,as theirs of the Cape of Good 

 Hope 3 but the Body k all covered with a white, blacks, or grey Wool : As 

 to the reji, it cries exa&ly like a Child ; the whole outward A^ion k fo Hu- 

 mane, and the PaJJJons Jo lively and fignifcant, that dumb Men can fcarce 

 exprefs better their Conceptions and Appetites. They do ej^ecially appear to 

 he of a very kind Nature ; and to JJjeiv their Affe&ions to Perfons they know 

 and love, they embrace them, and l^fs them with tran^orts that _ fur prife a. 

 Man. They have alfo a certain motion, that we meet not with in any Beafl, 

 very proper to Children, that k, to make it -noife with their Feet, for Joy or 

 Jpight, when one gives, or refufes them what they pajjionately long for. 



Although they be very big, (for that I faw was at leali four Foot high") 

 their nimblenefs and flight k incredible •■, it k Pleafure beyond exprejpon to 

 Jee them run up the Tackli>?g of a Ship, 'where they fometimes play, as if they 

 had a particular k^ack^ of Vaulting to themfelves, or as if they had been 

 paid, li/^e our Rope-Dancers, to divert the Company. 



Sometimes fSended by one Arm, they poife themfelves for fame time neg- 

 ligently to try themfelves, and then turn, all on the fudden, round about a 

 Rope, with as much qnickpefs as a Wheel, or a Sling that k once put in mo- 

 tion -^ fometimes holding the Rope fucceJJively ivith their long Fingers, and 

 letting their whole Body fall into the Air, they run full jpeed fom one to the 

 other, and come back, again with the fame fwifinefs. There k no Pojiure 

 hut they imitate, nor Motion but they perform-^ bending themfelves like a' 

 Bow, roivling like a Bowl, hanging by the Hands, Feet, and Teeth., accord- 

 ing to the d/Jferent Fancies which their whimjicdl Imagination fupplies them 

 with^ which they ACl in the moU diverting tnanner imaginable ; hut their 

 Agility to jling themfelves 'fiom one Rope to another, at Thirty and Fifty Foot 

 dijjance, k yet more furprijlng. 



