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callosities or rather fleshy protuberances, which I was so desirous 

 to see, and which were nearly two inches in thickness. The ears 

 were small and well-shaped, the nose quite flat, mouth prominent, 

 lips thick, teeth large and discoloured, eyes small and roundish, face 

 and hands black, the latter being very powerful. 

 " 1 The following are the dimensions : — 



Ft. In. 



Height from head to heel 4 1 



Length of foot 1 



Ditto hand 10^ 



Length of arm from shoulder-blade to finger end. . 3 5 J 



Shoulder-blade to elbow 1 G 



Elbow to wrist 1 ll 



Hip to heel 1 9 



Head to Os coccygis 2 5^ 



Across the shoulders ... 1 5^ 



Circumference of neck 2 4 



Ditto below the ribs 3 3£ 



Ditto under the arms 3 



From forehead to chin 9f 



Across the face, below the eyes, including callosities 1 1 



From ear to ear across the top of head 9-J 



From ear to ear behind the head 9f 



" ' The natives asserted the animal to be a small one, but I am see] - 

 tical of their ever attaining the growth of a tall man, though I bear 

 in mind that full-grown animals will probably differ as much in height 

 as man.' 



" Some days after this, and about thirty miles distant, I was fortu- 

 nate enough to kill two adult females (one with her young), and a 

 male nearly adult, all the Mias Kassar. The young male was not 

 measured, owing to my having waded up to my neck in pursuit of 

 him, and thereby destroyed my paper and lost my measure ; but he 

 certainly did not exceed three feet, whilst the two females were about 

 3ft. lin. and 3ft. 2in. in height. The male was just cutting his two 

 posterior molars : the colour of all resembled that of the Mias Pap- 

 pan, but the difference between the two animals was apparent even 

 to our seamen. The Kassar has no callosities either on the.male or 

 female, whereas the young Pappans despatched by the Martin Luther 

 (one of them not a year old, with two first molars) show them pro- 

 minently. The great difference between the Kassar and the Pappan 

 in size would prove at once the distinction of the two species, the 

 Kassar being a small slight animal, by no means formidable in his 

 appearance, with hands and feet proportioned to the body, and they 

 do not approach the gigantic extremities of the Pappan either in size 

 or power ; and, in short, a moderately powerful man would readily 

 overpower one, when he would not stand the shadow of a chance 

 with the Pappan. Besides these decisive differences, may be men- 

 tioned the appearance of the face, which in the Mias Kassar is more 

 prominent in the lower part, and the eyes exteriorly larger, in pro- 

 portion to the size of the animal, than in the Pappan. The colour 



