is not afraid to attack armed Men; in a word, there is great Reaſon to think that this is the Satyr of the Ancients. They are, perhaps, the Animals meant by Merolla, where he ſays that the Negroes, when hunting, ſometimes catch wild Men and Women."
Mention is likewiſe made in the third Tome of the ſame Hiſtory of Voyages of theſe kind of antropoform Animals, by the Name of Beggos and Mandrills; but to abide by the preceding Relations, there are in the Deſcription of theſe pretended Monſters very ſtriking Conformities with the Human Species, and ſmaller Differences than may be pointed out between one Man and another. We cannot diſcover by theſe Paſſages, what Reaſons the Writers had for refuſing to the Animals in queſtion the Name of wild Men; but we may eaſily gueſs, that it was on account of their Stupidity and Want of Speech; weak Arguments for thoſe who know, that, though the Organs of Speech are natural to Man, it is otherwiſe with Speech itſelf, and are aware to what a Pitch the Perfectibility of the Human Species may have exalted civil Man above his original Condition. The ſmall Number of Lines beſtowed upon theſe Deſcrip-tions
