its tormentors, that the men began to have doubts as to the nature of the deed they were perpetrating, so much were its actions like a human being in distress. But soon it fainted, and fell down on the grass quiescent, and was dead. On measuring the strange creature, it was found to be seven feet in length, and looked, while alive, and bounding from one tree to another, like a monster of a man, entirely naked, but overgrown with a thick coat of black, shiny hair, of about three inches long, except on the forehead and face. Its chin was fringed with a beard, which curled neatly on each side. Its arms were long — much longer than are a man's arms — while the legs were in proportion shorter, presenting a body of great size and power. The chest was broad and expanded, while the waist was quite slender, as are all the monkey tribes. The posteriors were pointed and narrow, which trait of form is also that of the African negroes. Upon the whole, says Dr. Abel, it was a wonderful creature to behold, and more about it to excite surprise than fear."
Mr. Shaw, the Wesleyan missionary in South Africa, says, that he has seen a whole troop of baboons on the mountains, who would not only scream, caper, and frolic at sight of their company, but would actually laugh. — Page 79 of his Memorials,
The existence of this animal, the ourang-outang, is a great phenomenon in the world of beasts, on account of its near approach to human beings, and especially to that of the negro race, both in form and capacities. The extreme scarcity of the creature in the world is not the least circumstance of its singu-
