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HUNTTNO 



CHAPTER XXVIT. 



HUNTING MONKEYS. 



fj\ modern zooiogisc* has, not 

 diii inaptly, applied' the term 

 Cheiropeds or hand-footed animals 

 to monkeys ; and, indeed, strictly 

 speaking, they can hardly be 

 called quadrumanous or four- 

 handed. Their extremities, ad- 

 mirably fitted for grasping and 

 climbing, as far as their arboreal 

 habits require those actions, fall short how very far short ! of 

 that wonderful instrument which surrounds a being born one of 

 the most helpless of all creatures, with necessaries, comforts, and 

 luxuries, and enables him to embody his imaginings in works 

 almost divine. We- look in vain among the most perfectly- 

 formed of the anthropoid apes for the weil-deve'loped opposable 

 thumb of the human hand that great boon, the ready agent of 

 man's will, by means of which he holds " dominion over the fish 



Mr. Ozilby. 



