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Thefe animals, in all the different lan- 

 guages of the natives, are called by 

 names fignifying a Wild Man. They 

 are reprefented by the Indians as being 

 near fivb feet in height, maintaining an 

 eredt pofition, and having a human 

 form, thinly covered with (hort black 

 hair - y but I fufpeft that their height 

 has been augmented by the fears of the 

 Indians, who greatly dread them, and 

 inftantly flee as foon as one is difcovered, 

 £o that none of them have ever been 

 taken alive, much lefs any attempts made 

 for taming them. The Indians relate 

 manv fabulous ftories of thefe animals 5 

 and, like the inhabitants of Africa and 

 the Eajiy affert, that they will attack 

 the males, and ravifh the females of the 

 human fpecies. 



\f\ The Ape, here called a Quato, is 

 large, and covered all over with long 

 black hair, except the face, which is 

 V \L/ 1 K 2 bald, 



