the Orang of Tulpius by its peculiar colour and its long toes, but also
by its whole external form. Its arms, its hands, and its feet are
longer, while the thumbs, on the contrary, are much shorter, and the
great toes much smaller in proportion."* And again, "The true Orang,
that is to say, that of Asia, that of Borneo, is consequently not the
Pithecus, or tailless Ape, which the Greeks, and especially Galen, have
described. It is neither the Pongo nor the Jocko, nor the Orang of
Tulpius, nor the Pigmy of Tyson,--'it is an animal of a peculiar
species', as I shall prove in the clearest manner by the organs of
voice and the skeleton in the following chapters" (l. c. p. 64).

[footnote] *Camper, 'Oeuvres', i. p. 56.

A few years later, M. Radermacher, who held a high office in the
Government of the Dutch dominions in India, and was an active member of
the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, published, in the second
part of the Transactions of that Society,* a Description of the Island
of Borneo, which was written between the years 1779 and 1781, and, among
much other interesting matter, contains some notes upon the Orang. The
small sort of Orang-Utan, viz. that of Vosmaer and of Edwards, he
says, is found only in Borneo, and chiefly about Banjermassing,
Mampauwa, and Landak. Of these he had seen some fifty during his
residence in the Indies; but none exceeded 2 1/2 feet in length. The
larger sort, often regarded as a chimaera, continues Radermacher, would
perhaps long have remained so, had it not been for the exertions of the
Resident at Rembang, M. Palm, who, on returning from Landak towards
Pontiana, shot one, and forwarded it to Batavia in spirit, for
transmission to Europe.

[footnote] *Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap.