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live in the moil defert places : grow to the height 
of fix feet: has prodigious ftrength, will over¬ 
power the ftrongeft man. The old ones are fhot 
with arrows ^ only the young can be taken alive :■ 
live entirely on fruits and nuts: will attack and kill 
the negroes who wander in the woods : will drive- 
away the elephants, and beat them with their lifts, 
or pieces of wood : will throw Hones at people that 
offend them : deep in trees *, make a fort of fhelter 
from the inclemency of the weather: are of a fo- 
litary nature, grave appearance, and melancholy 
difpofition, and even when young not inclined to 
frolick : are vaftly fwift and agile : go eredt: fome- 
times carry away the young negroes** 
When taken young are capable of being tamed ; 
very docil, are taught to carry water, pound rice, 
turn a fpit. The Chimpanzee fhewn in London , 1738, 
was extremely mild, affedlionate, good-natured ; 
like the fatyr of Pliny^ mtiffinla natura ; very fond 
of the people it was ufed to: eat like a human 
creature : lay down in bed like one, with its hand 
under its head : fetch a chair to fit down on : drink 
tea, pour it into a faucer if too hot: would cry like 
a child ^ be uneafy at the abfence of its keeper. 
This was only two feet four inches high, and was 
a young one : that defcribed by Doctor Pylon ** 
two inches ihorter. There is great poftibilky that 
* Thefe accounts arc chiefly taken from Andrew Battel an Eng-* 
'lijh Tailor, who was taken prifoner 1589, and lived many years in 
the inner parts of Congo; his narrative is plain, and Teems very au¬ 
thentic . it is preferved in Purchases collection. 
** Qrang outang, five homo fyhjeftris j or the anatomy of a Pygmie. 
Polio. London 1699, 
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