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immigrated from Asia, and partly perhaps from Polynesia 

 (or even from Europe). 



There still exist great difficulties in establishing an 

 accurate pedigree of the Human Race ; this only can we 

 further assert, that the nearest progenitors of man were 

 tail-less Catarrhini (Lipocerca), resembling the stiU living 

 Man-like Apes. These evidently developed at a late 

 period out of tailed Catarrhini (Menocerca), the original 

 form of Ape. Of those tail-less Catarrhini, which are now 

 frequently called Man-like Apes, or Anthropoides, there 

 still exist foiu- different genera containing about a dozen 

 different species. 



The largest Man-like Ape is the famous Gorilla (called 

 Gorilla engena, or Pongo gorilla), which is indigenous to 

 the tropics of western Africa, and was first discovered 

 by the missionary, Dr. Savage, in 1847, on the banks of 

 the river Gaboon. Its nearest relative is the Chim- 

 panzee (Engeco troglodytes, or Pongo troglodytes), also 

 indigenous to western Africa, but considerably smaller 

 than the GorUla, which surpasses man in size and strength. 

 The third of the three large Man-like Apes is the Orang, or 

 Orang Outang, indigenous to Borneo and the other Sunda, 

 Islands, of which two kindred species have recently been 

 distinguished, namely, the large Orang (Satyrus orang, or 

 Pithecus satyrus) and the small Orang (Satyrus morio, or 

 Pithecus morio). Lastly, there stiU exists in southern Asia 

 the genus Gibbon (Hylobates), of which from four to eight 

 different species are distinguished. They are considerably 

 smaller than the three first-named Anthropoides, and in 

 most characteristics differ more from Man. 



The tail-less Man-like Apes — especially since we have 



