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In this Character there are feveral things I could take notice of, and' 

 I may hereafter have occafion to refer to fome of the Particulars 5 But 

 what is mention'd of it's C7, like a Child's ; and it's expreffing the Paf~ 

 fions of Joy and Grief, by making a Noife with it's Feet, is agreeable 

 enough to the Relation I had of our Vygmh : For I heard it Cry my felf 

 like a Child ; and he hath been often feen to kick with his Feet, as Chil- 

 dren do, when either he was pleafed or angered. 



We (hall now proceed to the Anatomy^ which in a Hifiory of Animds.^ 

 is certainly the moft Neceffary, mofl: Significant, and Inftruftive Part. 

 Nor can I fee, how an Hijiory of Animds can be well wrote without 

 giving the Dijfe&ion of the Inward Parts : 'Tis as if one fhould under- 

 take to defcribe a Watch, and at the fame time, take notice only of 

 the Cafe or Cover, and tell what fine Garniture there is about it , but 

 inform us nothing of the admirable Contrivances of the Wheels and 

 Springs rpjthin, which gives it Life and Motion. Galen (41) thought 

 the DiJft£lion of Apes very ufeful for the underftanding the Structure of 

 the Parts in Humane Bodies ; and recommends it to his Scholars to Pra- 

 ctice themfelves herein. Not that he only differed -^P^-*"? (■isVefali^ 

 oftentimes charges him with ) or preferred it, before the Diffedion of 

 Humane Body : But where that could not be had, he advifes them to get 

 Apesj and difled them 5 especially thofe that come neareft to a Man. 

 Had he known our Pjgmie, no doubt but he would have preferred it , 

 for this purpofe, as much beyond the Ape, as he does the Ape beyond the 

 Cynocephalus, and all other Animals. For, as we (ball obferve, there is 

 no Animal, I have hitherto met with, or heard of, that fo exa6My re- 

 fembles a Man, in the Strufture of the Inward Parts, as our Pygmie : But 

 where it differs, (as I have remark'd ) there it refembles an Ape -^ being 

 different both from a Man and an Ape : And in many things agreeing 

 with both of them. 



The Skin of the whole Body of our Pygmie was whitifh 5 but that' 

 on the Head was tawny, and of a darker colour. 'Twas thin, but ftrong, 

 and adhered pretty firmly, and more than ufually to the Flefh 5 it's 

 greateft adhsefion was at the Linea alba, and in iht Palms of the Hands, 

 and the Soles of the Feet, and in the Fingers and Toes 5 as it is in Men. 

 In the Skin of the Arm-pits, I obferved thofe GlanduU Cutanes AxiUares, 

 which fecrete that Or^/z^e-coloured Liquor, which in fome Men ftains . 

 the Shift here, with that colour. I call them Cutane£^ to diflingui(h 

 them from thofe larger Glands,\hzt lie bedded under in the Fat, and are 

 call'd GlanduU AxiUares. For thefe I have obferved to be Lymphatic 

 Glands ; and have traced the LymphaduHs thence to the head of the 

 Du&tfsThoracicm, where they empty themfelves. 



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