PLATE LVII. 



was not misunderstood ; and then resuming the gravity of his demeanour 

 he continued his repast v/ith composure and indifference. To us, dis- 

 posed perhaps to view this prodigy with greater kindness, and to regard 

 it as a being ordained by nature to occupy a more important station in 

 the scale of the brute creation than we had already seen, his aspect was 

 more extraordinary than displeasing. In those particulars, in which the 

 similitude to the human frame was most observable, the likeness, it 

 must be allowed, was far from flattered : according to our analytical 

 ideas of symmetry or beauty, the arms were disproportionately much 

 too long, the legs and thighs too short, and the face elongated beyond 

 all due proportion ; but his eye beamed intelligence, and spoke the 

 workings of a sagacity endowed with strong mental powers and 

 penetration. In the features of this interesting being the Physiog- 

 nomist would more easily discover a resemblance to some gradations 

 of the human race, than is found to exist in any other known ani- 

 mal. The greatest deficiency in this similitude arose from the 

 extreme depression of the nasal organ which lies nearly flat upon the 

 concavity of the face. With this exception the likeness was not 

 remote. The features were those of the negro, amalgamated with 

 certain peculiarities of the Chinese, and uniting with both a cast of 

 character which reduced it nearer to the resemblance of the canine 

 race. A nose of some considerable prominency would have rendered 

 the likeness human, but in the apparent absence of this organ, owing 

 to its flat position in the depression of his face between the eyes and * 

 the mouth, the greater length of the forehead, and projection of the 

 muzzle became so conspicuous, as to produce this greater similitude 

 to the brute creation ^. 



* Professor Camper would have discovered in the profile of his face, 

 some lines of parrallel with that of the boy of Borneo depicted in the work 

 of Sir Stamford Raffles ; there is a general accordance that cannot well 

 escape observation. 



