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Updated: June 1, 2025
According to this account, man is, strictly speaking, merely a species of gorilla, orang-outang, chimpanzee, or the like, more or less hydrocephalous. Once on a time an anthropoid monkey had a diseased offspring diseased from the strictly animal or zoological point of view, really diseased; and this disease, although a source of weakness, resulted in a positive gain in the struggle for survival.
'Und dot man, who was king of beasts-tamer men, he had in der house shust such anoder as dot devil-animal in der cage a great orang-outang dot thought he was a man. He haf found him when he was a child der orang-outang und he was child und brother und opera comique all round to Betran.
These are frequently called by the Malays "Orang Benua," or "men of the country," but they are likewise called "Orang-outang," the name which we apply to the big ape of Borneo. The accompanying engraving represents very faithfully the "Orang-outang" of the interior.
"Make him go himself: tie him so he cannot run away," suggested Edward. "I am not sure but that would be the best plan," said Howe. "I am sorry he got that blow on his arm; I am sure it pains him; see how he attempts to raise it, and groans at every motion he makes." "Do you really think, uncle, he is human? It strikes me he is a monkey, or an orang-outang, rather than human."
"By George! he's got a bow in his hand. They're men! This is worse still. The orang-outang is bad enough, but he avoids men, I believe, unless interfered with or alarmed. These forest savages are dead shots with their arrows, and they'll look on us as intruders. If they're as spiteful as most of their kind we shall have trouble. Get your revolver ready, but we must pretend we haven't noticed them.
But I buy no villages in the Himalayas so long as one red head flares between the tail of the heaven-climbing glacier and the dark birch-forest. I know that breed. The orang-outang in the big iron cage lashed to the sheep-pen began the discussion.
I have myself often felt the influences of such surroundings, when dark clouds deepened the forest gloom, and the approaching storm set the trees whispering: if, at such a moment, the shaggy red-haired and goblin form of the orang-outang, with which some of the Dyaks identify their genii, should appear among the branches, it requires little imagination to people the mystic gloom with unearthly beings."
He is a mysterious being, sometimes described as a kind of orang-outang, covered with long shaggy hair, and living in trees; at others, he is said to have cloven feet and a bright red face. He has a wife and children, who, as well as himself, come down to the plantations to steal the mandioca."
How knowing they must have looked, as they said one to another, "Wasn't that thing managed pretty nicely?" In Sierra Leone is a species of orang-outang so strong and so industrious, that, when properly trained and fed, they work like servants. They generally walk upright on their two hind feet.
Besides, I make them useful in case my cattle stray away; and for a piece of tobacco not larger than my thumb they are willing to run all day." "Bah," grunted half a dozen voices in chorus, apparently roused to animation by some word that Smith had spoken. They extended their small hands, not larger than the paws of an orang-outang, and greatly resembling them in formation and looks.
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