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corpulent men is 
head becomes 
t 
a “ bay window.” As the animal grows older the fore- 
and the creature atrophied. The head, which inclines 
forward, is set on a thick 
short neck, which in turn 
is re-enforced by a pouch 
which extends beneath 
the arm-pits. He makes 
a bed every night, and 
when the weather is in¬ 
clement, he erects a tem¬ 
porary roof. It is timid 
and inoffensive, but if 
provoked too far is a 
dangerous enemy, 
although it never uses 
its teeth in the conflict. 
When pursued it utters 
the most dolorous cries, 
but to which the natives, 
who are fond of his flesh 
and use his skin for hel¬ 
mets and caps, are en¬ 
tirely deaf. 
The Mias-kassar is 
a smaller, slighter, less 
dangerous species of the 
orang-outang, but is 
found in the same lo¬ 
calities. 
The Chimpanzee 
(.Pithecus t r og lodytes) 
rankes highest among 
the quadrumana. It is 
called engecko by the na¬ 
tives, (whence the familiar 
name jocko,) and some¬ 
times the quimp e z e e 
(whence chimpanzee ). 
An African traveller 
found a native chief, who, 
after having feasted upon 
the flesh, had from su¬ 
perstitious reasons made 
a garden, whose rare 
plants consisted of the 
skulls of one hundred 
.and eighteen chimpanzees. 
The Black Chimpanzee ( Troglodytes niger ) belongs to Guinea. Its face is 
larger and flatter than that of the orang-outang; its ears are large and shaped like 
