Orang-Outangfive "Homo Sjhejlns\ 



OR, THE 



ANATOMY 



O F A 



PYGMIE. 



THAT the Pygmies of the Antlents were a fort of Apes, and 

 not of Humane Race, I (hall endeavour to prove in the fol« 

 lowing Fjfaj. And if thePygmes were only Jpes, then in 

 all probability our Ape may be a Pjgmk t, a fort of Animal fo 

 much refembling Man , that both the Antients and the Moderns have 

 reputed it to be a Puny Race of Mankind, call'd to this day, Homo Syl- 

 vejim. The Wild Man ; Orang-Outang, or a Man of the Woods ; by the 

 Africans ^aias Morron , by others Bark, or Barrk, and by the Por 

 tugefe, the Salvage. But obferving that under thefe Names, they defcribe 

 different Animals ^ for Diftinftion-fake, and to avoid Equivocation, I 

 fhall call theSub)e6i-, of which I am about to give th& Anatomy, zPygmie^ 

 from its Stature ; which I find to be juft the fame with the Stature of 

 the Pygmies of the Antients. Ttdpim 'tis true, and Bontius, and Dapper 

 do call it, Satyrm. And tho' I am of Opinion, that the Satyrs of the 

 Antients were of the Ape, or rather Monkey-Ymdi 5 yet for the Reafons 

 alledged in the following £^/, I cannot think om Animal a Satyr. The 

 Bark or Barrk, which they defcribe to be much taller than our Animal, 

 probably may be what we call a Drill. But I muft confefs, there is fo 

 great Confufion in the Defcription of this fort of Creature, which I find 

 is a very large Family (there being numerous %r7ej- of them ) that in 

 Tranfcribing the Authors that have wrote about them, 'tis almoft im- 

 poiTible but to make miftakes ; from the v/ant of their well diftinguifh- 

 ing them. I (hall endeavour therefore in my Account of this, fo to 



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