IN BORNEAN FORESTS [chap. 



between them, the orang being a land animal, and devoid of 

 the means of crossing the wide expanse of sea which now divides 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



Of the orang-utan foetus obtained by me at Marop, and already 

 alluded to, Professor Trinchese, who has published an accurate 

 description of it, 1 writes : — " Its aspect greatly surprises every- 

 one who sees it on account of its extraordinary resemblance to a 

 human foetus ; a likeness rendered still greater by the nakedness 



Fig. 40. FCETUS OF ORANG. 



of the skin, which a fine down or lanugo is insufficient to conceal." 2 

 This foetus is a female, and its development corresponds to a human 

 foetus between the fifth and sixth month of uterine existence. 

 The forehead is not receding, and the shape of the head has been 

 described as like that of an Eskimo. The neck is short, and the 

 nose does not project. The toes are very long, a character quite 



1 Annali del Museo Civico di Genova," vol. i. p. 9. ; tav. i., ii., iii. 



2 Loc. cit., p. 35. 



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