30 Orang-Outang five Homo Syhejim : Or^ 



the inward Membrane here more rugous than in a Man 5 fo that it feemed 

 fomewhat Analogous to a Valve. Drelincoitrt defcribes it, in the Female 

 Jpe he dilTeded, thus. Orrficmm ejus fuperius, mtUa. Valvula claufum 5 

 fed interceptum dupUd porthne D'mphragmatk carnosai^ ab ejus tendin'ibm 

 orhmda. 



The Ventricle or Stomachy as we {hall call this Part, in our Vygmk^ as 

 to it's Situation and Figure , exactly reprefented a Humane Stomach. 

 When inflated, from the entrance of ihtGtda along the upper part to 

 the Vylorus^ it raeafured Two Inches and three quarters. Meafuring with 

 a Thread from the pylorus along under the Fundus^ up again to the 

 entrance of the Guh^ I found it to be Fifteen Inches ; in all , near 

 . Eighteen Inches. The length of the Stomach in a fcrait Line, was Six 

 Inches and an half^ and it's breadth in a ftrait Line, where broadeft, 

 near Four Inches. The Girth of the Stomach in the middle, was near 

 Twelve Inches. So that I thought the Stomach large, in Proportion 

 to the bulk of the Body. It had numerous Blood-Veffels^ fpreading 

 themfelves all over, as in a Mans -^ and I could plainly perceive the 

 Inofculations of large Trunks of the Coronary Branches, with thofe that 

 defcended from the upper Parts. 



The Parijians obferved in their Monkeys^ That the Ventricle did like- 

 Tpife differ from a Mans^ it's inferiour Orifice king very large and lovp ; 

 for it was not elevated fo high as the fuperiour^ as it is in a Man. I did 

 not obferve this in our Pygmie. So Drelincoitrt tells us in the. Female Ape, 

 Ventricidt0 rngk interims niillis gaitdet ; and fome other Particulars he 

 takes notice of. But there v.'as nothing in ours, that I obferved, diffe- 

 rent from a Mans. 



As to their Food^ I find it very different in the Ape-kjnd 5 as in part 

 appears by what I have already mentioned of the Onrang Oiitang^ the 

 Bark^ the Pongo, &c. So that I can't but think, (like a Man) that they 

 are omnivorous. What chiefly our Pygmie affected, when Wild^ I was not 

 informed of -^ after it was taken, and made tame, it would readily eat 

 any thing that was brought to the Table 5 and very orderly bring it's 

 Plate thither, to receive what they would give him. Once it was made 

 Drunk v^ith Punch, (and they are fond enough of ftrong Liquors) But 

 it v/as obferved, that after that time, it would never drink above one 

 Cup, and refufed the offer of more than what he found agreed with 

 him. Thus we fee Injiin£f of Nature teaches Brutes Temperance ^ and 

 Intemperance is a Crime not only againfl the Laws of Morality, but of 

 Nature too.. 



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