_Sir Telegraph Paxarett._ God save King Oran! By the bye, you put me very much in mind of Valentine and Orson. This wild man of yours will turn out some day to be the son of a king, lost in the woods, and suckled by a lioness:—‘No waiter, but a knight templar’:—no Oran, but a true prince. _Mr. Forester._ As to Buffon, it is astonishing how that great naturalist could have placed him among the _singes_, when the very words of his description give him all the characteristics of human nature.[19] It is still more curious to think that modern travellers should have made beasts, under the names of Pongos, Mandrills, and Oran Outangs, of the very same beings whom the ancients worshipped as divinities under the names of Fauns and Satyrs, Silenus and Pan.[20] _Sir Telegraph Paxarett._ Your Oran rises rapidly in the scale of being:—from a baronet and M.P. to a king of the world, and now to a god of the woods. _Mr. Forester._ When I was in London last winter, I became acquainted with a learned mythologist, who has long laboured to rebuild the fallen temple of Jupiter. I introduced him to Sir Oran, for whom he immediately conceived a high veneration, and would never call him by any name but Pan. His usual salutation to him was in the following words: ἐλθε, μακαρ, σκιρτητα, φιλενθεος, ἀντροδιαιτε, ἁρμονιην κοσμοιο κρεκων φιλοπαιγμονι μολπῃ, κοσμοκρατωρ, βακχευτα![21] Which he thus translated: King of the world! enthusiast free, Who dwell’st in caves of liberty! And on thy wild pipe’s notes of glee Respondent Nature’s harmony! Leading beneath the spreading tree The Bacchanalian revelry! ‘This,’ said he, ‘is part of the Orphic invocation of Pan. It alludes to the happy existence of the dancing Pans, Fauns, Orans, _et id genus omne_, whose dwellings are the caves of rocks and the hollows of trees, such as undoubtedly was, or would have been, the natural mode of life of our friend Pan among the woods of Angola. It alludes, too, to their musical powers, which in our friend Pan it gives me indescribable pleasure to find so happily exemplified. The epithet _Bacchic_, our friend Pan’s attachment to the bottle demonstrates to be very appropriate; and the epithet κοσμοκρατωρ, king of the world, points out a striking similarity between the Orphic Pan and the Troglodyte of Linnaeus, _who believes that the earth was made for him, and that he will again be its sovereign_.’ He laid great stress on the word AGAIN, and observed, if he were to develop all the ideas to which this word gave rise in his mind, he should find ample matter for a volume. Then repeating several times, Παν κοσμοκρατωρ, and _iterum fore telluris imperantem_, he concluded by saying he had known many profound philosophical and mythological systems founded on much slighter analogies.