OURAN OUTANG. 
vellers have been tempted; and, from specu- 
lative writers of natural history, like the in- 
genious Goiclsmith, and in this science the 
still more ingenious and less speculative 
BufFon, who record what they have heard 
, and read, as well as what they have seen and 
examined, we must not expe£^: more than 
they had means to give. These, and others, 
treat it not only as a native of Africa, but 
of the East Indies. 
Linnsus seems to have considered it as the 
Satyr of the ancients; and Dr. Tyson, who 
has given to the world a minute and accurate 
anatomical description, names it tlie Pigmy. 
Brisson calls ii: 1' Homme de Bois, or the Man 
of the Woods.; Bos-man, in his Voyage to 
Guinea, the Smitten ; Purchas, the Drill ; 
Tulpius, the Satyrus Indicus, or Indian Satyr ; 
Bontius, the Troglodyte ; and Fyrard, who 
says it is called Baris in Guinea, tlie Jocko 
and the Enjocko. In Barbet's Guiney, it is 
also named Barrys, as well as Quojas Mar- 
rou ; and, by Battel, Barris and Pongo. In 
Scotia's priiU, mentioned by Edwards, it is- 
callcJ 
