188 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY, 



and much more when we confider another African creature, called 

 Quoyas Morrov, of which Odoard Dapper, in his Defcription of 

 Africa, p. 583, gives the following account. 



" In the woods of the kingdom of Angola, or Dongo, we find 

 an animal called Quoyas Morrov, that is, the Wood-man ; it is 

 alfo met with in Quoya, and in Bromo : it greatly refembles 

 man, and hence it is believed by many, that it has been produced 

 from the intercourfe between a man and an ape, or an ape and a 

 woman. A creature of this fort was fome years ago brought to 

 Holland, and prefented to Frederic Henry, prince of Orange. It 

 was as tall as a child of three years old, and as corpulent as one 

 of fix : it was ftrongly built ; fmooth before, but rough, and 

 overgrown with black hairs behind. The countenance of this 

 animal refembled that of a man ; the nofe was flat, the ears like 

 human ears ; it had two protuberant breafts, a navel, and all its~ 

 limbs like thoie of the human fpecies ; as elbows, hands, legs, 

 calves of the legs, and ancles. It frequently walked erecl:, and 

 could take up a heavy weight, and bear it away. When it wanted 

 drink, it fixed one hand to the bottom of a tankard, and with the 

 other took hold of the lid, and drank, wiping its lips afterwards. 

 It laid its head regularly upon a pillow, when inclined to fleep, 

 and covered itfelf carefully with the bed-cloaths ; fb that any per- 

 fbn would have fwore that a man was fleeping in the place. It 

 is reported, that thefe animals attack and ravifh women, and that 

 they fometimes fall upon armed men. Upon the whole, this ani- 

 mal appears to be the Satyr of the ancients." 



SECT. IV. 



If we will not allow our Norvegian Hasftromber the honourable 

 name of Mer-man, we may very well call it the Sea-ape, or the 

 Sea-Quoyas Morrov, efpecially as the author already quoted pre- 

 Meer-Minne. fently after fays, in p. 584., <c That in the Sea of Angola Mermaids 

 are frequently catch' d, which referable the human fpecies. They 

 are taken in nets* and kill'd by the negroes, and are heard to 

 fhriek and cry like women. The inhabitants on that coaft eat 

 their flefh, being very fond of it, which they fay is much like 

 pork in tafte. The ribs of thefe animals are reckoned a good 

 ftyptic \ and a certain bone in the head, which feparates the brain, 



.ha&enus eruere potui, unde homo a fimia internofcatur. Dantur e»im alicubi terrarum 

 fimias, minus quam homo pilofae, ere&o corpore, binis seque ac ille pedibus ince- 

 dentes, & pedum & manuum minifterio, humanam referentes fpeciem, prorfus ut 

 eofdem pro hominum quopiam genere venditarint peregrinatorum rudiores. Loquela 

 quidem, &c. — •*- veaim hsec qusedam eft potentia, vel certe effedtus, non 

 nota chara&eriftica. Carol. Linnsus in Pnefat, Faunae Suecicas, p. 2. 



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