An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![morrou]. This creature, he fays, bears fo near a tefemblance to man, that fome travelers have been foolifh enough to think it might proceed from a woman with a monkey, a chimerical notion, explodeéd, even, among the negros ; “ who tel very ftrange ftorys of this animal ; fureing us that the rile wil not onely ene wo- men and girls, but that he hath the courage to attack men though they are arm’d.* . ‘¢ The monkeys, apes, and baboons [of the iland of Borneo |,” fays captain eeckman, “ are of many different fhapes; but the moft remarka- ble are thofe they call oran-ootans,which, in their language, fignifys men of the woods. Thefe grow up to be fix feet high; they walk upright; have longer arms than men; ‘ tolérablely’ good faceés (handfomeér, i am fure, than fome Hot- tentots that i have feen); large teeth, no tails nor hair, but on thofe parts where it grows on human bodys. They are very nimble-footed, and, | mighty ftrong. They throw great ftones, fticks, and billets at thofe perfons that offend them. The natives do really believe that thefe were formerly men, but metamorphofe’d into beafls for their blasphemy. They told me many firange ftorys of them. I bought one, out of wre. * Rousfeaus Notes to his Znequality of mankind.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
