
NATURAL HISTORY. 43, 
“¢The body was covered with black hair, which # 
pron ly retembleshuman hair; andit was longeft in the 
ame parts, asin the human {pecies. ‘The face waslike the 
human face, except the forehead, being larger, and the 
head rounder. ‘The jaws were not fo prominent asin 
monkies, but flat, like thofe of a man. ‘The ears, 
teeth, and, in a word, the whole of this creature, at 
firft view, prefented a human figure. And, as, he fo. 
nearly approached manin his figure, his difpofition 
was exceédingly fond, more gentle, and harmlefs. 
than the monkey race are foundin general. Thofe. 
who were familiar with ‘him in the fhip, he would’ 
moit tenderly embrace, open their bofoms, and clafp 
his hands about them. And, although there were o- 
ther monkies on board, he never affociated with them 3, 
as if he confidered them, as indeed they are, claffes of 
beings much inferior to him‘in the fcale of creation. 
Being accuftomed to clothes, he grew fo tond of them 
as to endeavour to drefs and undrefs himfelf. Such 
arts as he could not put on, he took to fome.of the » 
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company on board, 'to-have their afliftance. Like any, 
human creature, he would go to bed, place his head 
on the pillow, and cover himfelf with the clothes.” 
One thefe of animals was fhown in London, in 1738, 
t hat would reach himfelf a chair, and drink tea, which 
if too hot, he would cool it in the faucer; he would, 
likewife, cry like a child, and be exceedingly unhap- 
py in the abfence of his keeper. 
-Itinhabits the interior parts of Africa, the ifland of 
’ Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. i 
‘The ourang outang is*folitary in its nature, and 
fubfifts chiefly on fruits and nuts. The larger fort 
are fo ftrong, as to be capable of overpowering the 
_ ftrongeftman. And, as nature has placed them a- 
mong the fierceft of animals, they are provided with 
fufficient courage, cunning, and dexterity, to drive a- 
way even elephants from them. ‘they beat them 
with their fifts and pieces of wood, and will even throw 
ftones at thofe that offend them. They fometimes 
Carry away young negroes, efpecially the females, 
whom they have been known to treat with the great- 
eft tendernefs. Le Broffe afferts, that he knew a wo- 
man of Loango, who had lived three years among 
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