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Gaboon, the Enché-eco, is the common name for the Chimpan- 
zée, and it is highly probable, though Battell has given no 
dhihücters by which it might be recognized, that the Pongo 
was the animal which forms the subject of our communication. 
The “Ingena,” referred to by Bowdich, in his mission to 
Ashantee, is probably the Engé-ena of the natives of the Ga- 
boon, though his statement, that the animal was “ five feet high 
and four across the shoulders," detracts from the credibility of 
his narrative. Whatever doubt may have heretofore existed, 
the following notices of the habits, and external characters, 
and descriptions of the crania and some of the bones, will 
serve most satisfactorily to confirm the statements of Battell 
and Bowdich, with regard to the existence of a second Afri- 
can Orang, and to demonstrate that it is as specifically distinct 
from the Troglodytes niger, as from the Orangs of Borneo and 
um. The specific name, gorilla, has been adopted, a 
g isa in the woods, and upon dte for they eate no kind of flesh. They cannot 
> ag ia have no understanding, more than a beast. The people of the countrie, 
‘Mey travaile in the e mke fires where they piepe in the night ; dubii 
g when they are 
Upon his moth When they die among themselves, they cover the dead 
m  heapes of boughs and wood, which is Md mene} in the forrests. 
je em of Andrew Battell. Purehas, n 
ie. [ede and mant extraordinary subject of ae on Natural 
a erii compared with i ding 
