70 Orang-^Outang five Homo Syheftr is : Qr, 



Mjonk^y^ there are more Bones, and thofe perforated, as Riolan defcribes 

 them. Hence Julius Pollux ftiles it , o t^nlh »ox>tt»|, Perforaim Coccyx. 

 This Os Coccygk makes a little bunching out of the Skin in the Pygmk, 

 as I have reprefented it in my fecond figure^ and is remark'd before (vide 

 fag.j^.yont. in Mrf«,'tis not protuberant. What Riolan obferves out of the 

 Nubian Geography y of a Nation in the Ifle of Namaneg^ having Tails, I 

 think is fabulous ^ unlefs they be Monkeys^ or of that kind : I am cer- 

 tain that Story of the Kentifi Longtails he mentions, is utterly falfe, tho' 

 he modeftly exprefles himfelf, fabulofum puto. His words are thefe : In 

 Infnla Namaneg Mam Oriental^., Gens eU caudata^ ex Geographia Arabi- 

 cS Nubienfi, pag. 70, fabulofum puto quod de Anglk Catidatk referunt Bi- 

 fiorici, quibm ob injuriam D. Thomse Cantuarienfi illatam, Deus Coccygem 

 injiar Cauda produxit (85). 



(o) In our Pygmie the Ribs were altogether as much curved, as in an 

 Humane Sceleton 5 and it was as full che(led as a Man. 



(p) In the number of the Ribs our Pygmie imitated the Ape-hjnd : for 

 it had thirteen of a fide, fix and twenty in all : In a Man there is but 

 twenty four, tho' fometimes there has been obferved thirteen of a fide. 

 As to the other Particulars that Riolan mentions, viz,, the number of the 

 Cofl£ vera, and the offious Extreams of the Noth£,3.nd the Articulation of 

 the Ribs, herein our Pygmie more refembled a Man : for it had but fe- 

 ven Cojia vera that were articulated to the Sternum ; and the Extreams 

 oi the Notha v/exe Cartilaginouf, not OJJious, and continued to the Ster- 

 num as in an Humane Sceleton ; and the Articulation of the Ribs was 

 more on the Body of the Vertebra, than in the Interftices. Drelincourt 

 is miftaken in mentioning but twelve Ribs in thtApe, of a fide, or his 

 was diiFerent. 



Of) Jo. Philippus IngraJJias (86) makes eight Bones in the Sternum of 

 Infants 5 and tells us, that in time thefe Bones do coalefce, and grow 

 ■fewer. Galen makes feven Bones in the Sternum , according to the num- 

 ber of the Cojits verts that infert x{\t\xCartilages'mx.o them. But the eighth 

 Bone Ingraffias faith, is for the Cartilago Enjiformts. In the Sternum of 

 our Pyq^mie I numbred feven Bones, the two lad being fmall and partly 

 Cartilaginous ; and here the Cartilages were inferted at the Commiffures 

 and Joyningsof the Bones of the Sternum. The Cartilago Enfiformk was 

 long and roundilh. The whole of the Sternum of our Pygmie much 

 more refembled thtHumane Sceletonfiizn the Monl^y s,htmgmxxch. broad- 

 er and larger, and as far as I obferved juft alike. 



(r) The Scapula o( our Pygmie, tho' in moft refpedts it refembled a 

 Man's^ yet I thought it did not fo much, a s a Monke/s ; for it feemed 



(85) Rjolan. Enchdrid. Anat. lib. 6.cap. i6. p. 451. (85) Jo. Phil. IngraJJias Comment, in Oalen.de 

 Ojfibus , Cap. 1 2 . Text, i . jag. m. 1 90, 



narrower. 



