‘Je l’ai vu présenter sa main pour reconduire les gens qui venoient le visiter; se promener gravement avec eux et comme de compagnie, etc.’—BUFFON. _H. N. de l’Oran Outang._ Footnote 43: Fletcher’s ‘Sea Voyage.’ Footnote 44: Anima certe, quia spiritus est, in sicco habitare non potest. Footnote 45: _Edinburgh Review_, No. liii. p. 10. Footnote 46: See the preface to the third volume of the _Ancient Metaphysics_. See also Rousseau’s _Discourse on Inequality_ and that on the _Arts and Sciences_. Footnote 47: nam si Pieria quadrans tibi nullus in umbra ostendatur, ames nomen victumque Machaerae, et vendas potius commissa quod auctio vendit, etc.—JUV. Footnote 48: ‘They use an artificial weapon for attack and defence, viz. a stick, which no animal merely brute is known to do.’—_Origin and Progress of Language_, book ii. chap. 4. Footnote 49: ‘There is a story of one of them, which seems to show they have a sense of justice as well as honour. For a negro having shot a female of this kind, that was feeding among his Indian corn, the male, whom our author calls the husband of this female, pursued the negro into his house, of which having forced open the door, he seized the negro and dragged him out of the house to the place where his wife lay dead or wounded, and the people of the neighbourhood could not rescue the negro, nor force the oran to quit his hold of him, till they shot him likewise.’—_Origin and Progress of Language_, book ii. chap. 4. Footnote 50: See Chap. IV. Footnote 51: