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moment, doubt the difficulty of such a dangerous, 

 and of such an arduous task ? I don't know how 

 I myseJf, with a young lady in my arms, would he 

 able to set about it, although I am, just now, 

 pretty nimble in getting up a tree. Poor hapless 

 damsels ! tedious and disgusting indeed, must have 

 been your awful journey upwards, whilst in the 

 arms of a villainous ape ! Say, what kind of 

 a resting place did ye find "on the tops of the 

 trees ? " . 



Did the knave of a pongo ape, leave you in that 

 perilous position aloft, until some pitying, and 

 daring brothel: or cousin of yours, should arrive to 

 the rescue ? Did your widely spreading petticoats 

 suffer nothing in the scuffle;? 



Furthermore, another .writer maintains, that, in 

 his voyage to Angola in 1738, he knew a negress 

 at Loango, who remained three years with these 

 animals ! ! 



Now, a sojourn of three years, argues that there 

 must have been, somewhere or other, a permanent 

 settlement of the pongos. Hoax of unparalleled 

 impudence in him who fabricated this most impro- 

 bable story ! 



The same traveller, in speaking of certain orang- 

 outangs which he had purchased from a negro, 

 does not content himself with informing us, that 



