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the-woods — the Orang — which had filtered to Europe through 

 India and the Levant, and the Arab sea-borne trade from Sumatra ; 

 but Pongo is an Afi'ican word originally applied to the Chimpanzee, 

 and in all probability derived from tlie Bantu dialects of Angola, 

 south of the Congo. The proper spelling of this word is Mpongo, 

 and it is a root which, in varying forms, is found in a number of 

 Bantu dialects and languages in Western and Equatorial Africa, 

 and used to indicate either a chimpanzee or a big baboon*. I have 

 not got access to various old books at the time of wiiting, but I 

 think I am correct in saying that English and Dvitch travellers on 

 the West Coast of Africa in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries 

 referred to the Chimpanzee as " Pongo." I also fancy that the 

 same allusion and the same name are made use of b}'' Buffon. As 

 in zoological nomenclature the preference is for the adoption of a 

 Latin or Greek name, it is a pity to introduce into our lists a 

 barbarous word in preference to one derived from either of the 

 classical languages. But Avhen in addition an African word is 

 taken as the name of an East Asiatic genus, then the choice is 

 singularly inappropi'iate. 



* It may be of interest to add the names foi- "Chimpanzee" in a number of 

 African languages, mostlj' collected bj' mj-self : — 



Lax&uage. District. Word for Chimpanzee. 



Teimie Sierra Leone Ka-futa (Ka-iss>«;(7. 



prefix). 



Vai Western Liberia Ibulu. 



Busi Xorth-western Liberia Guru. 



Mandingo North of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Iburu. 



and I^'ory Coast. 



Kpwesi Central Liberia Ibulu. 



Gora St. Paul's River, West Centi-al Onyi. 



Liberia. 



Basa and De Coast of Central Liberia Ibe. 



Kru nrvd. Greho Southern Liberia Tuawe 



Yoruha Interior of Lagos Obo. 



Ijo languages Brass, Bonnj', Niger Delta Tele. 



Iho Lower Niger Ozodimba. 



Efik Old Calabar Idiok. 



TImon, Ikun, and 7r n t^- m-Tn-- 



,j ' , ' >• Lower Cross Kiver Enop or Lnowi. 



Aktma-Kuna ) ^ 



Nki Extreme Upper Cross River Boki. 



Mhiidikum Sources of Cross River, N.E. of Ajki or Epfu. 



Cameroons. 



BaroHclo and Isubii North Cameroons Coast Ewaka. 



Mjpongwe Gaboon Ntj^ege andNchego; 



also Nkulu. 



Kongo Lower Congo and Congo Coast . . . Mpongi. 



Kimbundti Angola (south of Lower Congo) . . . Mpongo. 



[*** The origin o£ 

 the name " Pongo," 

 of Buff'on and others.] 



ICiweinba\ov Bemha] ... South-west of Tanganyika Koroe. 



Ki-guha West Tanganyika Tolue. 



Kabwari North-west Tanganyika Soko. 



Manyema West of Tanganjika and extreme Soko. 



Upper Congo. 



Ruanda North of Tanganyika Eujangwe. 



Kifipa East Coast, Tanganyika Isike. 



Jau-ganda West and North Coast of Victoria Edzike or Izike. 



Nj'anza. 



