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monkeys ? which would have been perfectly true, if said of the fore- 

 fathers of this singular race. 



Since the foregoing was written (in the month of September last) 

 I have lately obtained, in conversation with my friend, Dr. Falconer, 

 a very remarkable confirmation of the views it sets forth. Dr. Falco- 

 ner states that when in London he was intimate with Mr. Traill, 

 for many years Commissioner of Kumaon. That gentleman told 

 Dr. Falconer that, hearing from the natives curious accounts of a 

 race of men who, like monkeys, lived in the trees, and who inhabited 

 the depths of the forests of the Teraee, he had after much trouble 

 succeeded in having one man brought to him, whose appearance was 

 also most extraordinary and fully justified the epithet of 7[^ "STt^, 

 which the natives applied to him. Mr. Traill found him also 

 so excessively timid and alarmed, that though he was desirous of 

 keeping him for a short time, in hopes of inducing him and his tribe 

 to enter into some intercourse with the Residency, he would not 

 detain him ; and so giving him some presents he sent him away. 

 Nothing was ever heard of him or of any of his tribe afterwards ! 



We have thus upon three several points of continental India the 

 indubitable fact (for the account of the Tipperah, or Chittagong, tree- 

 inhabiting race is I think official ?) that there are wild tribes exist- 

 ing which the native traditional name likens to the Orang Utang, 

 and my own knowledge certainly bears them out, for in the gloom 

 of a forest, the individual I saw might as well pass for an Orang- 

 Utang as a man.* "What are these singular people ? 



The City of Doolmee. 

 Toorolea Maunbhoom, the \5th August, 1854. 

 My dear Sir, — With reference to my note of the 21st June 

 last, I have now the pleasure to furnish you with the few particulars 



* Since this was written, I find in Vol. IT. of the Journal, page 583, in a paper 

 on the Birds of Borabhoom and Dholbhoom by Lieut. Tickell, the following curious 

 passage. After affirming the existence of the Hippopotamus and of an enormous 

 snake, the writer goes on to say " and lastly from a casual glance, I once caught of 

 an animal in the thick and high woods bordering the Gurum nala near the valley 

 of the Subunreekn, it would be the corroboration of an anxious surmise were after 

 researches to establish the fact that the Orang .Utang is an inhabitant of these 

 forests. 



