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Hands. — PI. II. The palms of the hands are very long, are quite naked 

 from the wrists and are of the color of the face. Their backs, to the last 

 joint of the fingers, are covered with hair, which inclines a little backwards 

 towards the wrists and then turns directly upwards. All the fingers have 

 nails, which are strong, convex, and of a black color ; the thumb reaches 

 to the first joint of the fore-finger. 



Feet. — PI. III. The feet are covered on the back with long brown hair 

 to the last joint of the toes ; the great toe is set on nearly at right angles to 

 the foot, and is relatively very short. The original color of the palms of 

 the hands and soles of the feet is somewhat uncertain, in consequence of 

 the effect of the spirit in which they have been preserved. 



Skin. The skin itself is of a dark leaden color. The hair is of a brown- 

 ish red, but when observed at some distance, has a dull, and in some places, 

 an almost black appearance; but in a strong light it is of a light red. It is 

 in all parts very long ; on the fore arm it is directed upwards ; on the upper 

 arm its general direction is downwards, but from its length it hangs shaggy 

 below the arm ; from the shoulders it hangs in large and long massy tufts, 

 which in continuation with the long hair on the back seem to form one long 

 mass to the very centre of the body. About the flanks the hair is equally 

 long and in the living animal must have descended below the thighs and 

 nates. On the limits however of the lateral termination of the skin which 

 must have covered the chest and belly, it is scanty, and gives the impres- 

 sion that these parts must have been comparatively bare. Round the upper 

 part of the back it is also much thinner than elsewhere, and small tufts at 

 the junction of the skin with the neck, are curled abruptly upwards, corres- 

 ponding with the direction of the hair at the back of the head. 



In the dimensions which I am about to give of the skin, I have stated 

 that it measures from one extremity of the arm to another five feet eight 

 inches, to this is to be added fifteen inches on each side for the hands and 



