496 Savage and Wyman, External Characters, 
on the coast, the orangs are believed by the natives to be 
human beings, members of their own race, degenerated. 
Some few, who have put on a degree of civilization above the 
mass, will not acknowledge their belief in this affinity ; such 
profess to view them as embodied spirits, the belief in trans- 
migration of souls being prevalent. They say that the 
Enché-eko or Chimpanzée has the spirit of a Coastman, being 
less fierce and more intelligent, and the Engé-ena that of a 
Bushman. The majority however, fully believe them to be 
men, and seem to be unaffected by our arguments in proof of 
the contrary. This is especially true of the tribes in the im- 
mediate vicinity of the locality. They believe them to be 
literally ** wild men of the woods." 
They are generally eaten, and their flesh, with that of the 
Chimpanzée, and monkeys at large, occupies a prominent place 
in their “ bill of fare.” 
I. DESCRIPTION OF THE CRANIA AND SOME OF THE BONES OF 
; THE ENGÉ-ENA. 
The collection of crania and bones brought from Africa by 
Dr. Savage, and which served as the basis of the following 
descriptions, consists of four skulls, two males and two females, 
one of each in a perfect condition, and all of them adult ; 
a male and female pelvis, the long bones of the upper an 
lower extremities, and a few vertebrae and ribs. 
The crania of the males are much larger than those of the 
females, and exceed in their longest diameter the skull Ji 
well characterized Negro by two and a quarter inches; e y 
nearly one inch the diameter across the zygomatic arches. 
The sutures were entirely obliterated in one, anc 
in the other, a condition similar to that of the crant i 
adult Simia satyrus; and of the older crania of the Troglodyt 
niger, in both of which all sutures sooner or later disap = 
When viewed laterally, the- incisive alveoli in both 
See Table of Admeasurements, - 
'* See Boston Journal of Nat. Hist. Vol. IV. p. 370. 
