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extraordinary apes in the woods ; they are called by 
the blacks Quojas morrow, and by the Indians Orang- 
outang, that is satyrs, or woodmen. . . . This creature 
seems to be the very satyr of the ancients, written of 
by Pliny and others, and is said to set upon women in 
the woods, and sometimes upon armed men.” Amongst 
these animals he evidently includes the chimpanzee, as 
may be seen by his reference to the Royal Exchange, 
London. 
In 1776 the philosophical Abbe Proyart, in his 
excellent “ History of Loango,” tells us ( vide the 
chapter upon animals) that “ there are in the forests 
baboons four feet high ; the negroes affirm that, when 
they are hard pushed, they come down from the trees 
with sticks in their hands to defend themselves against 
those who are hunting them, and that very often they 
chase their pursuers. The missionaries never witnessed 
this singularity.” According to the people, gorillas 
five or six feet tall have been seen as lately as 1840 at 
“ Looboo Wood,” a well-known spot which we shall 
presently sight, about three miles inland from the centre 
of Loango Bay. 
And now the long intervals between travellers’ 
accounts wax shorter. The well-known writer, Bowdich, 
before quoted, published, in 1819, his hearsay descrip- 
tion of the “ Ingena,” garnished with the usual native 
tales. I had the honour of receiving an account of his 
discovery from his widow, the late Mrs. Lee, who was 
held the “ mother of African travellers,” and whose 
energy and intelligence endured to the last— if memory 
serves me, she referred to some paper upon the subject, 
written by herself about 1825. Towards the end of 
1846, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, founder of the Gaboon 
Mission, and proto-grammarian of its language, obtained 
two skulls, which were followed by skeletons, frag- 
mentary and perfect. He sent No. 1, measuring, when 
alive, 5 1 feet in height, and 4 feet across the shoulders, 
to the “Natural History Society” of Boston. He 
evidently has a right to boast that he was “ the first to 
call the attention of naturalists to the ‘ Njena.’ ” His 
