On the Angwantibo of Old Calabar. 
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part of the word, and cannot say whether it arose from any 
habit peculiar to the animal. It lives in trees ; but, being 
nocturnal, the people know exceedingly little about it. They 
cannot tell what it eats. A lad whom I asked said that he 
lived in the house, and it lived in the bush ; how, then, could 
he know anything about it ? My Krumen also recognised it 
as a countryman of theirs. They consider the one sent as a 
young one ; and say that in their country it grows to the size 
of a common puss. Probably theirs is a different animal, but I 
cannot tell. They call it Bwdn, and say that it lays down the 
law to the other beasts, forbidding them to eat the joimg fruit 
when it begins to form on the trees. If the monkey trans- 
gress, the Dwdn seizes him, and holds him there till he dies, — 
yea, the monkey rots in his grasp. They say that they are 
shot together thus. If the monkey gets the shot, the Dwdn 
holds on ; if the Diudn gets the shot, they fall together. The 
Krumen say that the Dwdn eats fruit. This is all we know 
about it at present ; and their (the Krumen's) account seems 
somewhat fabulous. One of the legs of this specimen is 
broken. I will send it by the mail that takes this to your 
address.— I am, &c., Ali^xander Robb. 
P.S. — Since writing the above, I have met a youth 
who professes to know about the Angwantibo. He says it 
sleeps by day, and eats at night ; and that, when full grown, 
it is as big as an old cat, and that it eats fruit." 
In a subsequent letter from Mr Eobb, dated 28th February, 
1860, he says : — " I trust you received the Tardigradus sent 
a few months ago. Another specimen which I procured I 
handed to Mr Thomson, who, I believe, sent it to Mr Murray." 
I have also received from the Rev. H. M. Waddell the fol- 
lowing notice, which he had put down in his note-book as 
descriptive of the ^'Angwantibo: — An animal of the sloth 
kind, lives in trees, hangs on the branches, and eats fruit. 
Rather larger, when full grown, than a large cat. Longish 
snout, short ears, each foot three long crooked toes and claws, 
with a thumb similarly shaped. No tail. Dun colour; cannot 
walk on the ground. When set down, crawls a little, falls 
over, and rolls itself up in a ball. Inoffensive." 
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