ORAN OTAN. 9 
would use it in a proper manner. I was assured, 
that on shipboard it ran freely about the vessel, 
played with the sailors, and would go, like them, 
into the kitchen for its mess. At the approach 
of night it lay down to sleep, and prepared its bed 
by shaking well the hay, on which it slept, and 
putting it in proper order, and, lastly, covering 
itself warm with the coverlet. One day, seeing 
the padlock of its chain opened with a key, and 
shut again, it seized a little bit of stick, and 
put it into the key-hole, turning it about in 
all directions, endeavouring to see whether the 
padlock would open or not. This animal lived 
seven months in Holland. On its first arrival it 
had but very little hair, except on its back and 
arms: but on the approach of winter it became 
extremely well covered ; the hair on the back be- 
ing three inches in length. The whole animal 
then appeared of a chesnut colour; the skin of the 
face, &c. was of a mouse colour, but about the 
eyes and round the mouth of a dull flesh colour. 
It came from the island of Borneo, and was 
deposited in the museum of the Prince of Orange. 
Upon the whole, it appears clearly that there 
are two distinct species of this animal, viz. the 
Pongo, or great black Oran Otan, which is a native 
of Africa, and the reddi/h brown or chesnut Oran 
Otan, called the Jocko, which is a native of 
Borneo and some other Indian islands. This lat- 
ter, as appears from a collation of most of the 
specimens which have been surveyed with the ne- 
cessary degree of exactness, is distinguished by 
