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was amazed to hear “of a kinde of Great Apes, if they 
might so bee termed, of the height of a man, but twice as 
bigge in feature of their limmes, with strength proportion- 
able, hairie all over, otherwise altogether like men and 
women in their whole bodily shape.* They lived on such wilde 
fruits as the trees and woods yielded, and in the night time 
lodged on the trees.” 
This extract is, however, less detailed and clear in its state- 
ments than a passage in the third chapter of the second part 
of another work—“Purchas his Pilgrimes,’’ published in 1625, 
by the same author— which has been often, though hardly ever 
quite rightly, cited. The chapter is entitled, “The strange 
adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh in Essex, sent by the 
Portugals prisoner to Angola, who lived there and in the adioin- 
ing regions neere eighteene yeeres.” And the sixth section of 
this chapter is headed—‘ Of the Provinces of Bongo, Ca- 
longo, Mayombe, Manikesocke, Motimbas: of the Ape Mon- 
ster Pongo, their hunting: Idolatries; and divers other 
observations.” 
“This province (Calongo) toward the east bordereth 
upon Bongo, and toward the north upon Mayombe, which 
is nineteen leagues from Longo along the coast. 
“This province of Mayombe is all woods and groves, so 
overgrowne that a man may travaile twentie days in the 
shadow without any sunne or heat. Here is no kind of 
corne nor graine, so that the people liveth onely upon 
plantanes and roots of sundrie sorts, very good; and nuts; 
nor any kinde of tame cattell, nor hens. 
«But they have great store of elephant’s flesh, which they 
greatly esteeme, and many kinds of wild beasts; and great 
store of fish. Here is a great sandy bay, two leagues to the 
northward of Cape Negro,+ which is the port of Mayombe. 
Sometimes the Portugals lade logwood in this bay. Here is 
*« Except this that their legges had no calves.”—[Ed. 1626.] And in a 
marginal note, “* These great apes are called Pongo’s.” 
+ Purchas’ note.—Cape Negro is in 16 degrees south of the line. 
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