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which was without hair: the ears were 
alfo naked, and much of the human make. 
(See the profile head, which gives the 
manner of the growth of the hair.) It 
had two nipples, fituated as in man : the 
face and naked parts of the paws were of a 
fwarthy flelh-colour : the body and limbs 
were covered with a loofe, fhaggy, reddifh- 
brown hair, thicker on the hinder parts, 
and thinner before: the hair from the 
hand to the elbow inclined towards the 
elbow. 
About fifty years ago was publi filed an 
anatomical defcription, by Edward Tyfon, 
M. D. of this fame animal, which he 
calls the Pigmy, wherein he has given 
figures of it: and finCe him, A. D. 
1738, a figure was publifhed of one that 
was brought from the coaft of Africa, 
called Chimp-anzee, and fliewn in London 5 
which print is infcribed to Sir Hans Sloane. 
But neither of thefe prints were fatisfadlory 
to me, who had feen the above-defcribed, 
which was a female, with one other (a 
male) now in my hands ; both agreeing 
exactly in every part, but what diftinguifhes 
the fexes: for which reafon I have pub- 
lifhed this figure, the original whereof 
was with great care done by me, to be 
preferved amongfl the drawings of animals, 
in the Mufeum of the late Sir Hans Sloane, 
Bart, now in the Britifh Mufeum. I be- 
lieve them all to be natives of Africa 3 
though there are voyagers to India that 
defcribe fomething like them. In a book 
of prints by P. Vander Aa, bookfeller at 
Leiden, (which prints I believe are gathered 
from voyagers) he gives two plates, 1 1 
and 77, of what he calls Satyrs, or Orang 
Outang. Capt. Beeckman, in his Voyage 
to Borneo, Lond. 1718, has figured and 
defcribed one near of kin to this, but not 
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incline ', depuis le cou , tout autour de la the, 
vers le front, fur lequel il pendoit un peu , de 
me me que fur les cotes du vifage , qui etoit 
fans poll: les oreilles etoient decouvertes aufii, 
et fort refiemblantes a celles de ihomme: on 
wit, par le profilde la tete, la manure dont 
les cheveux croijfoient. 11 avoit deux mame - 
Ions , places comme ceux des hommes : le vifage 
et les parties fa?is poil des pates etoient dime 
couleur de chair brundtre : le corps et les 
membres etoient converts de poil crepu , affez 
long, dim brim rougeatre , plus epais fur le 
dos que fur le devant : le poil depuis la main 
jufqu au coude inclinoit vers cette dernier e 
partie. 
II y a environ 50 ans, que Mr. Edouard Ty- 
fon Medecin , publia une defcription anatomi - 
que de ce me me animal, quil nomme Pigmee, 
et dont il donne deux figures . Depuis ce 
temps -Id, on a publie , en 1738, une figure 
Tun de ces finges, qui etoit venu de la cote 
d'Afrique, appellee Chimp-anzee , et qii on 
montroit a Londres : cette figure etoit dediee 
au Chevalier Hans Sloane . Alais je rial etc 
content, ni de celle-ci , ni des autres, apres 
avoir vu celui que j ai decrit : c etoit une 
femelle-, outre un autre ( male) que j ai ac - 
tuellement par devers mb, et qui fe reffem- 
blent exadlement en toutes leurs parties, ex- 
cepte en ce qui fait la difference des fexes . 
C eft ce qui ni a engage a publier cette figure, 
dont favois fait V original avec un Join tout 
particulier, pour etre garde parmi les dej'- 
feins d y animaux du cabinet de curiofities du 
Chevalier Hans Sloane, qui font a prefent 
dans le Cabinet Britahnique. fie crois que 
tous ces finges font criginaires d' Afrique, 
quoiqii il y ait des voyageurs, qui en parlant 
des Indes , decrivent quelque chofe de femblable . 
Pierre Vander Aa, libraire d Leyde, a public 
un livre de failles douces , qui me paroffent 
recueillies de divers voyageurs, parmi left 
quelle s il y en a deux, (la 11 et la 77 ) de 
ce qii il appelle Satyr es, cu Orang Outang. Le 
Capitaine Beeckman , dans Jon Voyage de Bor - 
