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twitter at a cat : when attacked, they show perfect skill in 

 defending and assisting each other : they regularly begin 

 hostilities against those who enter their woods : they take 

 most desperate leaps, and seldom come to the ground-: one 

 being wounded, the rest come round, put their fingers into 

 the wound, as desirous of sounding its depth : the blood flow- 

 ing in any quantity, some stop it, while others get leaves, 

 chew, and thrust them into the opening : are often killed in 

 numbers before they make a retreat, with the same precipi- 

 tation as they at first came on : in this retreat the young are 

 clinging to the back of the female, who jumps away, seem- 

 ingly unembarrassed by the burden : usual way of taking 

 them alive ; the monkey, not killed outright, does not fall ; 

 but, clinging to some branch, continues, when dead, its 

 last grasp, and remains where shot until it drops by putre- 

 faction : skinned and served up at negro feasts, so like a 

 child, an European is shocked at the sight : the negroes 

 seeing Europeans buy young and tame monkeys, with equal 

 care brought rats to the factors for sale, and were greatly 

 disappointed at finding no purchaser : negroes cannot com- 

 prehend advantages arising from educating or keeping ani- 

 mals, who come in companies to lay waste fields of corn or 

 rice, or plantations of sugar-canes : they carry off what they 

 are able, and destroy ten times more : manner of their 

 plundering : are under a kind of discipline, exercised among 

 themselves : account to this purpose by Margrave : one 

 species, by M. Buffon called the ouarine, remarkable for 

 loudness and distinctness of voice : use to which they con- 

 vert it : are generally together in companies, march in exact 

 order, and obey the voice of some chieftain, remarkable for . 

 his size and gravity : chief food of the tribe : extraordinary 

 manner of managing an oyster, 311, &c. Manner of draw- 

 ing crabs from the water : no snare, however nicely baited, 

 takes a monkey of the West-Indian Islands : female brings 

 forth one, and sometimes two, at a time : rarely breed when 

 brought into Europe : the male and female never tired of 

 fondling their young, and instruct it with no little assi- 

 duity: often severely correct it, if stubborn, or disinclined 

 to profit by their example : manner of carrying their young 

 in the woods : dexterity in passing from one tree to another, 

 by forming a kind of chain, locking tail in tail, or hand in 

 hand : one amused itself for hours imposing upon the gravity 

 of a cat, and playing its pranks among rabbits : faithful ser- 

 vices which father Carli received from the monkeys in An- 

 gola, where he went to convert the savage natives to Chris- 

 tianity : savages of Africa and America suppose monkeys to 

 be men ; idle, slothful, rational beings, capable of speech 

 and conversation, but obstinately dumb, for fear of being 

 compelled to labour ; monkeys of Africa most expert and 



