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the sailors began to teaze it—some loved to see its tears and 
hear it cry; others hated its snotty-nose; one who hurt it, 
being checked by the negro that took care of it, told the slave 
he was very fond of his country-woman, and asked him if he 
should not like her for a wife? To which the slave very 
readily replied, ‘No, this no my wife; this a white woman— 
this fit wife for you. This unlucky wit of the negro’s, I 
fancy, hastened its death, for next morning it was found dead 
under the windlass.” 
William Smith’s ‘ Mandrill,’ or ‘ Boggoe,’ as his descrip- 
tion and figure testify, was, without doubt, a Chimpanzee. 
Linnzus knew nothing, of his own observation, of the man- 
like Apes of either Africa or Asia, but a dissertation by his 
pupil Hoppius in the “ Amcenitates Academice” (VI. ‘An- 
thropomorpha’) may be regarded as embodying his views 
respecting these animals. 
The dissertation is illustrated by a plate, of which the ac- 
companying woodcut, fig. 6,is a reduced copy. The figures are 
entitled (from left to right) 1. Troglodyta Bontii; 2. Lucifer 
Aldrovandi ; 3. Satyrus Tulpii; 4. Pygmeus Edwardi. 'The 
first is a bad copy of Bontius’ fictitious ‘Ourang-outang,’ in 
whose existence, however, Linnzus appears to have fully 
believed; for im the standard edition of the “Systema 
Fic. 6.—The Anthropomorpha of Linneus. 
