It has also arms like man, only covered with hair, and it
bends these legs like man, with the convexities of both limbs facing
one another. In addition, it has hands and fingers and nails like man,
only that all these parts are somewhat more beast-like in
appearance. Its feet are exceptional in kind. That is, they are like
large hands, and the toes are like fingers, with the middle one the
longest of all, and the under part of the foot is like a hand except
for its length, and stretches out towards the extremities like the
palm of the hand; and this palm at the after end is unusually hard,
and in a clumsy obscure kind of way resembles a heel. The creature
uses its feet either as hands or feet, and doubles them up as one
doubles a fist. Its upper-arm and thigh are short in proportion to the
forearm and the shin. It has no projecting navel, but only a
hardness in the ordinary locality of the navel. Its upper part is much
larger than its lower part, as is the case with quadrupeds; in fact,
the proportion of the former to the latter is about as five to
three. Owing to this circumstance and to the fact that its feet
resemble hands and are composed in a manner of hand and of foot: of
foot in the heel extremity, of the hand in all else-for even the
toes have what is called a 'palm':-for these reasons the animal is
oftener to be found on all fours than upright.
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