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of Pongo; and that the N’Pongues (as, in agreement with 
Dr. Savage, he affirms the natives call themselves) term the 
estuary of the Gaboon itself N’ Pongo. 
It is so easy, in dealing with savages, to misunderstand 
their applications of words to things, that one is at first in- 
clined to suspect Battell of having confounded the name of 
this region, where his “ greater monster” still abounds, with 
the name of the animal itself. But he is so right about 
other matters (including the name of the “ lesser monster ”’) 
that one is loth to suspect the old traveller of error; and, on 
the other hand, we shall find that a voyager of a hundred 
years’ later date speaks of the name “ Boggoe,” as applied to 
a great Ape, by the inhabitants of quite another part 
of Africa—Sierra Leone. 
But I must leave this question to be settled by philologers 
and travellers; and I should hardly have dwelt so long upon 
it except for the curious part played by this word ‘ Pongo’ in 
the later history of the man-like Apes. 
The generation which succeeded Battell saw the first of the 
Homo Sylveftris. 
Orang Oulang. = 
man-like Apes which was 
ever brought to Europe, or, 
at any rate, whose visit found 
a historian. In the third 
book of Tulpius’ “ Observa- 
tiones Medice,” published 
in 1641, the 56th chapter 
or section is devoted to what 
he calls Satyrus indicus, 
‘called by the Indians 
Orang-autang, or Man-of- 
the Woods, and by the Afri- 
cans Quoias Morrou.” He 
gives a very good figure, 
seaeenr = —— evidently from the life, of 
Fic. 2—The Orang of Tulpius, 1641. tp spe cimen of this animal, 
”» presented to Frederick 
€ e A 
“nostra memoria ex Angola delatum, 
