Speech of the Orang Outang. 145 
who was fo good as to order not only a female, but a 
male one for my life; but this laft was unluckily loft, 
with the whole lhip, betwixt Java and the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
Thefe and the fucceeding years were very favourable 
to Naturalifts; for Profeffor allamand got a male 
Orang for theMufeum of the Univerfity of Leyden; Mr. 
vander meulen, a great admirer of natural hiftory 
(who has one of the fineft collections at Amfterdam) re- 
ceived one, and Mr. vosmaer got two for the celebrated 
collection of the Prince of Orange, all females. In the 
year 1777, Dr. van hoey (a phyiician of great celebrity 
at the Hague, who has a very rich collection of natural 
curiofities) got a male (but a very young) Orang. Upon 
the whole, I had an opportunity of feeing feven Orangs, 
betides the living one, which was fent to his Highnefs 
the Prince of Orange. 
AM thefe refembled perfectly in thape and colour that 
of Mr. edwards, which is ftill preferved in the Britifh 
Mufeum. 
Seven of thofe, I had feen, had no nails upon the great 
toes of the feet : it furprized me, therefore, to fee them 
fo diftinCtly reprefented by ProfetTor allamand. I took 
the liberty to inform him of it; he corrected his de- 
fcription accordingly, p. 75. ib. in fine , which was eatily 
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