Pappan

Word PAPPAN
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What would be really great would be a link to the mfr or a distributor so it could be purchased pappan ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pappan is justly named _Satyrus_, from the ugly face and disgusting callosities. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The mias pappan is represented to be as tall or taller than a man, and possessing vast strength: the face is fuller and larger than that of the mias rombi, and the hair reddish, but sometimes approaching to black. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

By the native statements, therefore, we find three distinct species, viz. the Mias pappan or Simia Wurmbii, the Mias kassar or Simia morio, and the Mias rombi, which is either the _Simia Abelii_, or a fourth species. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

If pushed to extremity, however, the pappan could not be otherwise than formidable; and one unfortunate man, who with a party was trying to catch a large one alive, lost two of his fingers, beside being severely bitten on the face, while the animal finally beat off his pursuers and escaped. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The Mias pappan and Mias kassar inhabit the same woods, but I never met them on the same day; both species, according to the natives, are equally common, but from my own experience the Mias kassar is the most plentiful. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The mias rombi never exceeds four or four and a half feet; his face, unlike the pappan, is long, and his hair redder. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The Mias kassar or Simia morio is of the same color as the Mias pappan, but altogether smaller, and devoid of callosities either on the male or female adults. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

I had an opportunity of seeing the Mias pappan and the Mias kassar in their native woods, and killing one of the former and several of the latter species. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The male was just cutting his two posterior molars: the color of all resembled that of the Mias pappan, but the difference between the two animals was apparent even to our seamen. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

Mias pappan is the _Simia Wurmbii_ of Mr. Owen, having callosities on the sides of the face: the natives treat with derision the idea of the Mias kassar, or _Simia morio_, being the female of the Mias pappan or Simia Wurmbii; and I consider the fact can be established so clearly that I will not trouble you with their statements: both ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The natives of the northwest coast of Borneo are all positive as to the existence of two distinct species, which I formerly gave you by the names of the _Mias pappan_ and _Mias rombi_; but I have since received information from a few natives of intelligence that there are three sorts, and what is vulgarly called the Mias rombi is in reality the _Mias kassar_, the rombi being a distinct and third species. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

I may mention, however, that two young animals I had in my possession alive, one a kassar, the other a pappan, fully bore out these remarks by their proportionate size. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

Among these is to be a mias pappan, living or dead. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The pappan, with two molars, showed the callosities distinctly, and was as tall and far stouter than the kassar with three molars, while the kassar had no vestige of the callosities. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

Malays and Dyaks are positive that the female of the Mias pappan has cheek-callosities the same as the male; and if on inquiry it prove to be so, the existence of three distinct species in Borneo will be established. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

Their mode of progression likewise was different, as the kassar doubled his fists and dragged his hind quarters after him, while the pappan supported himself on the open hands sideways placed on the ground, and moved one leg before the other in the erect sitting attitude; but this was only observed in the two young ones, and cannot be considered as certainly applicable to all. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The color of the skin in the adult pappan is black, while the kassar, in his face and hands, has the dirty color common to the young of both species. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

They represent the Mias rombi to be as tall as the pappan, or even taller, but not so stout, with longer hair, a smaller face, and no callosities either on the male or female; and they always insisted that it was not the female of the pappan. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

Beside these decisive differences may be mentioned the appearance of the face, which in the Mias kassar is more prominent in the lower part, and the eyes exteriorly larger, in proportion to the size of the animal, than in the pappan. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

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