"I shall next describe a strange sort of animal, called by the white men
in this country Mandrill*, but why it is so called I know not, nor did
I ever hear the name before, neither can those who call them so tell,
except it be for their near resemblance of a human creature, though
nothing at all like an Ape. Their bodies, when full grown, are as big
in circumference as a middle-sized man's--their legs much shorter, and
their feet larger; their arms and hands in proportion. The head is
monstrously big, and the face broad and flat, without any other hair
but the eyebrows; the nose very small, the mouth wide, and the lips
thin. The face, which is covered by a white skin, is monstrously ugly,
being all over wrinkled as with old age; the teeth broad and yellow;
the hands have no more hair than the face, but the same white skin,
though all the rest of the body is covered with long black hair, like a
bear. They never go upon all fours, like apes; but cry, when vexed or
teased, just like children...."

[footnote] *"Mandrill" seems to signify a "man-like ape,"
the word "Drill" or "Dril" having been anciently employed
in England to denote an Ape or Baboon. Thus in the fifth
edition of Blount's "Glossographia, or a Dictionary
interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language now used
in our refined English tongue...very useful for all such as
desire to understand what they read," published in 1681, I
find, "Dril--a stone-cutter's tool wherewith he bores
little holes in marble, etc. Also a large overgrown Ape
and Baboon, so called." "Drill" is used in the same sense
in Charleton's "Onomasticon Zoicon," 1668. The singular
etymology of the word given by Buffon seems hardly a
probable one.