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Re: Question re L'Ile mysterieuse

From: <Skravitz~at~aol.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:37:53 EST
To: jvf~at~gilead.org.il

I will try to track down this story but I believe that it is true. If any
man in history had an orangutan as a manservant then Buffon was just the man
to do so. He was in charge of the French king's zoo, he was one of the
first to study animals scientifically and he was financially well to do. In
Verne's "Uncle Robinson" the engineer Harry Clifton declares that orangs have
quasi human intelligence and that they can serve at tables, clean rooms and
clothes and drink liquors.
Received on Fri 03 Feb 2006 - 20:37:14 IST

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