Battell

It does not appear difficult to identify the exact region of which Battell speaks.

Essays 2007

Gaboon country at the present day, apply to the Chimpanzee a name — “Enche-eko” — which is obviously identical with the “Engeko” of Battell; a discovery which has been confirmed by all later inquirers.

Essays 2007

Two centuries and a half have passed away since Battell told his stories about the ‘greater’ and the ‘lesser monsters’ to Purchas, and it has taken nearly that time to arrive at the clear result that there are four distinct kinds of

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“Ingena” of Bowdich; and Dr. Savage arrived at the conviction that this last discovered of all the great Apes was the long-sought “Pongo” of Battell.

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Battell, seeing that the Orang – Utan is entirely confined to the great Asiatic islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

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The generation which succeeded Battell saw the first of the man-like Apes which was ever brought to Europe, or, at any rate, whose visit found a historian.

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It is so easy, in dealing with savages, to misunderstand their applications of words to things, that one is at first inclined to suspect Battell of having confounded the name of this region, where his “greater monster” still abounds, with the name of the animal itself.

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“The verie euill thoughts of the wicked,” wrote Zachary Boyd in Last Battell, his 1629 masterpiece, “in that day shalbe spread out and laide in broadband before the face of God.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

“The verie euill thoughts of the wicked,” wrote Zachary Boyd in Last Battell, his 1629 masterpiece, “in that day shalbe spread out and laide in broadband before the face of God.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Battell, Columbus, Ohio, is the biggest of the whole business.

Oral History Interview with George Watts Hill, January 30, 1986. Interview C-0047. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1986