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wife, cry like a child, and be exceedingly 
unhappy in the abfence of his keeper. 
It inhabits the interior parts of Africa, the 
iflands of Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. 
The ourang putaqg is folitary in its na- 
ture, and fubfifts chiefly on fruits and nuts. 
The larger fort are fo ftrong, as to be capable 
of overpowering the ftrongeft man. And, as 
nature has placed them among the fierceft of 
animals, they arc provided with fufficient 
courage, cunning, and dexterity, to drive 
away even elephants from them. They beat 
them with their fills and pieces of w’ood, 
and will even throw Hones at thofe that 
olfend them.. They fometimes carry away 
young negroes,, efpecially the females, whom 
they have been know'n.to treat with the grcatell 
tendernefs. Le Brolfe aflerts, that he knew 
a woman of Loango, who had lived three 
years among them.,.. 
7he PIGMY APE. 
This animal has a flat face, with ears 
like thofe of a man. It is as large as a cat, 
and has olive-brown hair. It fublifls chiefly 
on fruit, ants, and other infefts. In order 
to find ants, they alfemble in troops, and 
turn over every Hone in fenreh of them. 
Africa is the country where they are mollly 
found. In animal exhibitions, the pigmy 
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