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 the young ones after killing the Mother, from whoe Body, they cling o fat to it, it is no eay Matter to part them. When one of thee Animals dies, the ret cover his Body with a Heap of Leaves or Branches. Purchas adds, that in his Conferences with Battel he had been informed by himelf that a Pongo one Day carried off from him a little Negroe, who pent a whole Month among thee Animals; for they do no Harm to the Men they urprize, provided their Captives do not look at them, as the little Negroe oberved. Battel has not decribed the econd Species of Monter.

Dapper confirms that the Kingdom of Congo is full of thee Animals, which in the Eat Indies are known by the Name of Orang-Outang, that is to ay, Inhabitants of the Woods, and which the Africans call Quojas-Morros. This Beat, he ays, is o like a Man, that ome Travellers have been illy enough to think it might be the Offspring of a Woman and a Monkey: a Chimera which the Negroes themelves laugh at. One of thee Animals was brought from Congo to Holland, and