pongo

Example Sentences

• "[…] asserts, that the apes called pongos, "kill many negroes that travel in the woods." […] [Regarding] pongos belabouring [i.e. beating] elephants, [he adds] that "a pongo ape carried off a young negro, […]""
• "[…] Pongos are never taken alive, owing to their strength, which is so great that ten men cannot hold one of them. The young Pongos hang upon their mother's belly, with their hands clasped about her. Many of the young ones are taken by […]"
• "[…] regarded the jockos, pongos, and orangs as animals all belonging to one species. The young African animals observed by him and von Tulpe (chimpanses) must have been young pongos (66). The name pongo was afterwards applied to the old misshapen orang-utan."
• "They—the pongos, the gorilla, the tschiego, and the chimpanzee—cannot be treated as animals, but must be associated with as men, […]"
• "The result is again clearly shown in the topography of the valley wall which becomes bold, inclosing the river in narrow "pongos" or canyons filled with huge bowlders^([sic]) and dangerous rapids."
• "[page 202:] Below the pongo, the Marañon is easily navigable […] [page 203:] Above the pongo, the river is sometimes referred to as the Vilcanota, but below it is always the Urubamba. The Pongo de Mainique is another magnificent landmark in Peru […]"