FIG. 5.--Facsimile of William Smith's figure of the "Mandrill," 1744.

"When I was at Sherbro, one Mr. Cummerbus, whom I shall have occasion
hereafter to mention, made me a present of one of these strange
animals, which are called by the natives Boggoe: it was a she-cub, of
six months' age, but even then larger than a Baboon. I gave it in
charge to one of the slaves, who knew how to feed and nurse it, being a
very tender sort of animal; but whenever I went off the deck the
sailors began to teaze it--some loved to see its tears and hear it cry;
others hated its snotty nose; one who hurt it, being checked by the
negro that took care of it, told the slave he was very fond of his
country-woman, and asked him if he should not like her for a wife? To
which the slave very readily replied, 'No, this no my wife; this a
white woman--this fit wife for you.' This unlucky wit of the negro's, I
fancy, hastened its death, for next morning it was found dead under the
windlass."

William Smith's 'Mandrill,' or 'Boggoe,' as his description and figure
testify, was, without doubt, a Chimpanzee.

FIG. 6.--The Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus.

Linnaeus knew nothing, of his own observation, of the man-like Apes of
either Africa or Asia, but a dissertation by his pupil Hoppius in the
'Amoenitates Academicae' (VI. 'Anthropomorpha') may be regarded as
embodying his views respecting these animals.

The dissertation is illustrated by a plate, of which the accompanying
woodcut, Fig, 6, is a reduced copy, The figures are entitled (from