oran-outang

It is probable that the wild man of the Arkansas is, in reality, some species of the oran-outang, or chimpanzee.

Canadian Crusoes Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

Madagascar squirrel, the Senegal lemur, two varieties of the oran-outang, the proboscis-monkey, different specimens of the indri, some new species of bats and opossums, the Batavian kangaroo, and several antelopes, ant-eaters, &c.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

The animals hero arc the fame as on the continent of India, vi/.. bears, tygers, elephants, bulfalocs. deer, Szc. but the moll remarkable animal, and which is alinoll pctuliartothis illand, is that monllrous monkey called the oran-outang, or man of the wo - .o llranger wnirM venture to go near them. livery perfon who rr. idcsui this place, mull have a licence li) r that purpofe frnni the king of.

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