Habits and Osteology of a New Orang. 495 
The killing of an Engé-ena is considered an act of great skill 
and courage, and brings to the victor signal honor. A slave 
toan Mpongwe man, from an interior tribe, killed the male and 
female whose bones are the origin of this article. On one 
occasion he had succeeded in killing an elephant, and return- 
ing home met a male Engé-ena, and being a good marksman he 
soon brought him to the ground. He had not proceeded far 
before the female was observed, which he also killed. This 
act, unheard of before, was considered almost superhuman. 
the man’s freedom was immediately granted to him, and his 
hame proclaimed abroad as the prince of hunters, 
It is said that this animal exhibits a degree of intelligence 
inferior to that of the Chimpanzée ; this might be expected 
from its wider departure from the organization of the human 
subject. I could not ascertain that more than one or two at 
most of the young had ever been captured. One was taken 
and kept for a year by a native, and then sold toa Frenchman, 
but it died on the passage home. Whether the skeleton was 
preserved is not known. No information respecting its 
habits in a state of domestication could be had upon which 
reliance might be placed. 
In the wild state their habits are in general like those of the 
Troglodytes niger, building their nests loosely in trees, living 
9n similar fruits, and changing their places of resort from the 
force of circumstances. 
The Amomums, which constitute in every locality of the 
Orangs a prominent article of food, I found to be of entirely 
“tent species from those at Cape Palmas. At the latter 
Point but one species and a small variety, with acid pulp is 
known, but at the Gaboon at least three. ‘They eat only those 
Species which have an acid pulp or arillus: Fruits distin- 
Suished by the opposite qualities of acidity and sweetness are 
"ien with equal zest. The stem of the Saccharum officina- 
rum, the fruit of the Elais Guineénsis or oil palm, Carica 
Papaya, Musa sapientium, and several others unknown to 
Botany are prominent on the list.. Here, as at all other points 
